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...Reck, pastor of Houston's Zion Lutheran Church, "but I always felt the conductor was saying to himself, 'Here's another chiseler.'" And chiseling can work two ways, suggests Father George McCormick of Trinity Episcopal Church in Miami: "When I'm offered a 10% dis count, I feel that the price has been jacked up 20% anyway...
...praises, debating about their favorite pieces, planning branches of The New Tom Wolfe Fan Club." Well, people have been talking unhappily about him, too, lampooning his literary mannerisms and planning branches of the Let's Punch Tom Wolfe in His Southern Snoot Club. But even readers who dis like Wolfe's flamboyant, exaggerated style and who feel that he has less than a firm regard for facts agree that there are few other writers today who have so mordant a sense of the ridiculous or such deadly sharpshooting...
...looking out for other cars were not difficult enough, the hapless motor ist is driven to distraction by a sea of signs that tell him where to go and what to do. Ford Motor Co. has come up with an experimental device aimed at taking the dis out of the traction...
...malady of the present system is symptomized by a deficiency in liquidity and a fundamental dis-equilibrium. In this system central banks use a mixture of gold and foreign exchange as reserve assets--meaning that they back a portion of their currency with dollars and pounds. Every central bank has the legal right to convert its dollars to pounds at the rate set by the U.S. Treasury: 35 dollars to the ounce. But every central bank knows that the U.S. Treasury just doesn't have enough gold to redeem every dollar in foreign hands. Therefore, every central bank is reluctant...
While most women in the U.S dis like the needle, some prefer it, and more do so in other countries. But for home use, Squibb hopes eventually to bring out a one-pill-a-month form...