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...company has never had a female director be fore, and Peterson suspects that she was chosen largely because "they felt it is important to have a women on the board." She is already the only woman on the boards of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and the Dry Dock Savings Bank...
...pretty drunk and jumped over the side holding on to another bottle and a portable television set; I lost the TV right away and came up by an old building next to the water; meanwhile, everybody has jumped off the fucking boat and it's hauling ass for the dock all by itself when it stalls; so help me Christ, if that thing had hit that dock we would have been in jail for a hundred years, or something; I get out of the water and run up on this catwalk at the back of this building...
...final speech from the dock, one of the most eloquent addresses ever delivered in the cause of a free Ireland, Casement declared, "Loyalty is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not restraint. The government of Ireland by England rests on restraint and not on law; and since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty." Self-government, he added, is "a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers...
...still warm, virtually all factories are still humming, and the popular mood is swinging mercurially from aggravated alarm to sour skepticism. The nation is being swept by rumors of tankers idling at sea to await higher prices before unloading, of refineries bulging with reserve stocks, of price-gouging from dock to gas pump. Forgetting how much their lives have already changed-who would have dared predict a year ago that 68° thermostat settings and gasless Sundays would so quickly become routine?-many Americans are asking not how the nation has managed to avoid the worst but whether there really...
Once they reached the water's edge, the marchers tore down part of a chain-link fence and quickly swarmed around all sides of the dock...