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...past. He excited his people with impassioned speeches full of grievances toward their neighbor. He exploited a border dispute, scheduled negotiating sessions that were intended all along to be fruitless, and cooked up a request for intervention by supposedly downtrodden locals. The invasion sequence itself was classic '30s: bluff, feint and grab...
...Eighties had ended until suddenly his cash started running out. So far, Trump has not missed any payments on his estimated $3 billion in loans and junk bonds. But his lenders and suppliers have begun to fear that Trump's domain is an overleveraged structure built on swagger and bluff. His creditors have suddenly demanded proof of his financial prowess, and he is coming up short. "He's a desperate man. Everywhere Trump is walking, there's a fire under his feet," observes Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis financier and sometime raider. "It shows how quickly things...
...been a cold war battlefield for more than three decades. That the first breakthrough in resolving regional conflicts during the Bush presidency occurred there is remarkable. The virtually untold story of that success reflects how the two most powerful nations on earth do business. It is a tale of bluff, deception, anger, accusation, threat, candor, misinterpretation, goodwill and, above all, creative diplomacy...
...Angeles County Fire Department, a unit that serves a working-class white and Hispanic area within comfortable reach of five hospital emergency rooms. But as time passes each day, one E.R. after another claims saturation and closes down. Paramedics with life-and-death cases must sometimes beg or bluff their way in. Equally frustrating, trauma-care capability gets entangled with the community's demand for street medicine. High-speed runs for "unknown rescue" all too often involve nothing more than cut fingers, headaches and family hysteria...
...triggering a rash of food poisoning. Two other colleagues of Romuald's frame their boss on an insider-trading charge, and soon Romuald is fired. If only he would listen to Juliette (Firmine Richard), the office cleaning woman, who has been uncovering scraps of the conspiracy while maintaining the bluff invisibility of the servant class. And if Romuald listens to this black Cassandra, he may see that she has more to offer than a plan to reclaim...