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...frankly, on the assumption that if we continue to cut our losses, we are not going to win. But in the end, we are going to be bled to death. And in the end, it's all going to come out anyway. Then you get the worst of both worlds...
Distillers will hardly be bled by the payments, which for tax purposes can be subtracted from its gross profits-an income that last year amounted to some $150 million. Britain's corporate-tax rate (50%) will automatically halve the company's net payout, and tax concessions for the establishment of the trust fund will reduce the sum even more...
...peace in Viet Nam may soon be almost as controversial as the war once was. After 46,000 Americans died in combat, after the nation bled $135 billion from its treasure and suffered a psychic dislocation as severe as any since the Civil War, the President would ask taxpayers for billions of dollars more. Much of it would go as a transfusion for the people and the regime that U.S. B-52s were bombing just a few weeks ago at Christmastime...
...took five stitches to sew up the slit over his left eye, and he bled for the first time in his professional career. Still, with a 41-lb. weight advantage. Heavyweight ex-Champion Muhammad Ali succeeded in clobbering Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster in Stateline, Nev.-knocking him down seven times and finishing him off with a knockout in the eighth round. "All through the fight, he gave me trouble," Ali admitted. "I got bruised and I got cut, something Joe Frazier or nobody else could do." But as he held an ice pack to his eye, Ali added...
...benefits expected from vampire control are manifold: a marked decrease in outbreaks of both human and animal rabies and other infections carried by the bats; an increase in the weight of beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live...