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...frame. We're in the basement-level Forum Room at the Copley Plaza, downtown Boston. A 31-year-old Nieman Fellow on rapturous leave from The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., is burbling to no one in particular that the Bloody Mary they've served him before lunch, dammit, just won't do. At all. "It's pure Campbell's tomato juice," he sniffs petulantly...
Control Data is studying cities in which to start, and Norris is talking with some mayors, seeking support. "Dammit," he snorts, "rebuilding the cities will be one of the great growth industries of the future. It will replace the auto as the big provider of jobs- if we Americans can ever get ourselves organized...
...being used on you as well." The argument did not go down well with a disgruntled Soviet correspondent, who might have been expected to be more tolerant of the relentless ideologizing. "This is all silly schoolboy rhetoric," he said. "Let's get out and see the war, dammit...
Beyond that, cooking for Dr. Simon is the kind of learning experience that has occupied his professional life: "If your first recipe fails, you say, 'Dammit, I have to try it again.' It's like medical skills: Why did you miss that diagnosis? In the kitchen, as in the hospital, you learn something about human imperfection...
Government borrowers face a similar deterrent: the necessity of applying to Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the credit-investigating agencies, for ratings for their bonds. The foreigners, says Koerner, thought that ignominious: "Their feeling was, 'Dammit, we are a sovereign country. Why should these private American companies come and tell the world whether or not we have done a good job?' It was a bit like asking someone to take off his pants in front of someone he did not even know." Wall Street underwriters stress that going to the agencies is part of growing...