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...Georgia Buck, a black secretary in the office, at least had a reason not to produce: revenge. Several years earlier she had been involved in an affirmative-action suit, and since then she had been shuffled-"detailed," in bureaucratese -among offices in the department. When I knew her she was on her fifth detail, felt very persecuted, and on the rare occasions when she was given anything to do, worked far below her abilities...
...very bad $22 billion this year. But the dollar probably will remain weak for a variety of reasons: a surfeit of $600 billion in greenbacks is sloshing around the world as a result of inflationary excesses; foreign governments are weary of spending their own currency to support the beleaguered buck; and foreign moneymen think that America's leadership is soft and uncertain...
Classic performances by Peter Sellers in three roles: the crippled scientific adviser to the President, Dr. Strangelove; the effete U.S. president; and a British air force captain. George C. Scott turns in a good leer as a stodgy hawk, Buck Turgidson. Great choice of music, too--"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" as the planes head...
...Spanish and Bahamian roots, bought up and restored many of the Conch-style cottages and rambling homes in the Old Town section. Prices there tripled in three years. The shops along drowsy and all-but-derelict Duval Street were renovated and transformed; the old Kress dime store became Fast Buck Freddie's, a trendy shoppe. Five hundred new hotel and motel units were built, with 450 more plus a convention center on the drawing board...
...people in countries we seek to influence and do business with. The U.S. can--no more than any native grown dictator--succeed for long if success depends on armed conflict with the populace. And lacking the ability to murder our way to international success, more moderate attempts to buck popular political expressions can only alienate potential friends because of the basic anti-democratic, immoral tenor of such policies...