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...female that they're looking "awful pretty today," is adamant about that. There's a weird ethic going on here with this car. "Hell, now, I wouldn't sleep with Raquel Welch if she wanted it just to sit in the car." It's practically--no, it is--a bona fide matter of honor. A bona fide matter of honor right here in his prefab Ford showroom in the middle of nowhere...
...Nonsense Tightwad. Oddly, this figure has assumed the most traditional American role. He is the Jew become Yankee Trader?prudent, frugal, resourceful, strict; in Koch's case, ascetic to boot. On his shoulders lies the mantle of New England Protestantism, the mantle scorned and defiled by bona fide Protestants like former Mayor John Lindsay, and now handed over to the latest pioneers...
...bona fide concerns on both sides, the crisis also had some elements of a political game whose players, perhaps unwittingly, had let the stakes get out of hand. Syria, for example, could not hope to win a war with Israel. Yet there it was deploying its missiles in the most provocative fashion possible. As one British intelligence specialist observed: "It's hard to take too seriously a line of missiles drawn up as if on the playground, without any semblance of camouflage...
...Black Bears were the nine's first bona fide competition of the season (in its opener, the Crimson downed MIT, 16-5), and although it lost both ends of the twinbill, 5-4 and 11-8, Morris lauded his team for demonstrating an ability to come back after the Main squad had established sizeable leads...
...generation" weaponry as Leopard tanks from West Germany and the Super Mirage 4000s from France, and they are prepared to trade highly sweetened, long-term oil deals for them. Explains a West German defense contractor: "There's prestige in mere possession of such weapons systems It strengthens their bona fides with other Arabs. And God knows the Saudis can afford them." In addition, in the Saudi view, if the West Europeans can also exert some leverage on the U.S., so much the better...