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...reminds him of his own dead collie, the only female who never deserted him. He produces papers proving that Lassie is really his and takes her, growls and all, to his mansion in Colorado. She outwits him, however, dumps him into his swimming pool, and runs away???a long, long way to California. She climbs up mountains and falls down mountains, crosses deserts, rivers and seemingly impenetrable barriers, and rescues a kitten from a flaming inferno. Does she make it back to California and her family? Well, you'll just have to see the movie...
...directly move the economy, it can have an important psychological effect by making people feel poorer?and with reason. Says Albert H. Cox, chief economist of Merrill Lynch, the brokerage giant: "By our estimates, at this point almost $100 billion worth of values in listed stocks has been wiped away???$62 billion last year and another $30 billion plus just in the early part of this year. That has to have some dampening effect [on the economy] after a while...
David's epitaph on that relationship is as cold as a mirror: "You reach the point of emotional bankruptcy; the only thing you can do is walk away from it." Such bankruptcy is a frequent emotion of his characters; they too walk away???from spying, from each other, sometimes from life itself. But his more successful operatives are those who somehow manage to retain a human, familial touch and a sense of the land. This reflects Cornwell's present state of mind. For a decade, England has taken more than 80% of his income. Yet, tempted to seek overseas...
...moment, it seemed unlikely that the U.S. would have the stomach to refight Viet Nam. The war had already cost too much in lives and money wasted 9,000 miles away???more than 56,000 Americans dead and 303,000 wounded, upwards of 1 million dead Vietnamese, $141 billion spent, 7 million tons of bombs dropped?and all for a war that came, more or less, to nothing. The cost had also been exorbitant in hatred and alienation at home...
...Nasser?to justify the continuing struggle with Israel. While diplomats spent over 20 years discussing and dropping various plans for resettling them, the Palestinian children were being taught as their primary subjects hatred for Israel and a determination to regain their land in the same way it was taken away???by force. Now grown to young manhood, they are the world's dividend of neglect, the fedayeen...