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Nearly every air marshal was once a soldier or a cop, so most ease right into the male-dominated, boot-camp atmosphere. Even a sedentary office worker like me felt a little bolder when I put on the trainee uniform (gray T shirt, black cargo pants, black boots), strapped my leather holster to my side and listened to the first instructor tell the class, "You've got to have a winning mentality. You have to believe you're Superman. Or maybe the Black Knight in Monty Python." I laughed, but my classmates didn't; they just nodded in silent agreement...
...economic shock therapy to pull the U.S. out of the stagflation of the 1970s. Courage allowed him not to flinch when his radical economic policies (and those of a merciless Federal Reserve) initially caused the worst recession since the Great Depression--and during a congressional election year (1982) to boot...
...economic shock therapy to pull the U.S. out of the stagflation of the 1970s. Courage allowed him not to flinch when his radical economic policies (and those of a merciless Federal Reserve) initially caused the worst recession since the Great Depression - and during a congressional election year (1982) to boot...
With wholesale prices rising briskly and consumer costs creeping up, investors are rushing to protect their money from inflation. This season's favorite hedge: Treasury inflation-protected securities, or TIPS, which do what their name suggests and provide great portfolio diversification to boot. The bad news is that investors have been clamoring for TIPS so enthusiastically that they have bid up prices, making TIPS less attractive for the time being...
...that had been shot down, and I was silhouetted between this guy's gun and the ship, and I couldn't move. I finally was able to bring my right leg up close enough to where I could get my jump knife out of my boot. I cut the harness loose...