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Narrow Ties. Despite the good will that he gained from the 1971 rescue effort, not everyone in the industry was sorry to see Perot take such a bath. He was distrusted for his blind faith in computerization as a key to the industry's survival, for his nostalgic standards of employee dress (dark suits, narrow ties and supershort hair), and for the heretical notion that brokers be compensated on the basis of how well their clients' stocks perform rather than on how many shares they turn over. "He alienated a lot of the jerks in the industry with...
Nothing works - not a hokey assignation between Brody's wife and a predatory ichthyologist, and especially not an eat-'em-up ending that lacks only Queequeg's coffin to resemble a bath tub version of Moby-Dick...
Simon grew up on the New Jersey coast, the scion of a family that had become wealthy in the silk-dyeing industry in Paterson, but took a bath in the Depression; his father was an insurance broker. At Lafayette College, Simon was pledgemaster of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and he plumped up his slender funds with odd jobs and winnings at poker.He also ate enough and drank enough beer to put more than 200 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame. Then he doggedly swam 25 to 30 laps a day at a local Y.M.C.A. pool until...
...electrically heated moat guaranteed not to freeze up in winter, the white stucco, three-story villa has 25 rooms, including a temperature-controlled wine cellar for 10,000 bottles, a gymnasium, dance hall, his-and-her saunas, and a master bedroom suite complete with a 10-ft. whirlpool bath...
...once-magnificent railroad system. Even given the highly unlikely return of abundant fuel, the U.S. could not indefinitely tolerate or afford the poisonous pollution, cost, congestion, racket and uglification of a transportation system based on carbon monoxide and concrete. Even if automobiles could be made to run on recycled bath water, such problems are likely to persist and proliferate...