Word: ams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. I am well aware that there are not a great many competent, caring, dedicated psychiatrists out there. The Karl Menningers in the field are few and far between. I am disturbed by the fact that 1 out of every 10 psychiatrists admits, get that, to having had sex with...
It seems this particular set of checks came from Joey's Pan Am-affiliated MasterCard. It's one of the many airline-affiliated Visas or MasterCards that give you a frequent-flyer mile free for every dollar you charge, even if you pay your balance in full within the grace...
-- MasterCard's computer awarded Joey 10,000 Pan Am frequent-flyer miles.
Cost to Joey: nothing. Cost to MasterCard: 10,000 frequent-flyer miles. (The bank that issues Joey's MasterCard pays Pan Am a penny or so for each mile awarded -- about $100 in this case.) Lessons for us: Resist those tempting blank checks your credit-card company sometimes sends (unless...
Novelists can become captives of their own Walter Mitty fantasies (remember Norman Mailer's political career?). It may be Clancy's entree to the powerful that now encourages him to aspire to something beyond the National Space Council. For although he has no formal military or national-security credentials, what...