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...pieces of the complex package hold together, the nation's biggest and most debt-ridden city will get merely another brief breather. The $2 billion will tide it over until December. Between then and the end of the fiscal year, next June, New York must beg or borrow yet another $3 billion or so. It can accomplish this only if it can market bonds to the nation's investors, who have lately viewed New York's paper as a pox. To regain their confidence and start putting its finances in order, the city has had to surrender...
...spend a lot of time in the book, and maybe I should have, just documenting every single thing I did to try to change it, every memo that I wrote, every phone call I tried to make, every criticism. We'd go in and see Gordon; we'd beg them to take the ad libs off the air. I had plans for series of things we could do, and ideas for film pieces. And Gordon would say, 'Well, we're going to have to work something out' or 'we'll have to see to this' or 'I'll get back...
...different from everybody else, reclining on a European tour as frail aristocrats line up to beg for favors. He is the most powerful man in the world. Meanwhile, a black ragtime pianist, thought to be a Junatic, is holed up in J.P.'s library, ready to blow it up. He is holding all New York at ransom to correct a racial humiliation. He bombs fire stations, dominates the tabloids, and threatens to detonate the Morgan property if he is not avenged. As in Attica, a "representative" is sent in, Booker T.Washington, but the ragtime man is adamant...
Daly and Schmidt were notably tight-lipped about their memos. Daly saying only: "If this raw material is the best The Crimson can beg, borrow, or steal, then I feel sorry for its readers...
...result, Sadat in his travels through the Middle East must beg for funds even as he is trying to solidify his position as spokesman for all the Arab people. So far, he has had some success. Several new housing cities are rising alongside the Suez Canal as part of a rebuilding program that goes hand in hand with canal renovations: Faisal City, named for the late King of Saudi Arabia; Sabah City for the Sheik of Kuwait; Zayed City in honor of Abu Dhabi's Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan...