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...friends of the Avatar must "put their heads on the guillotine," to use the City Manager's phrase. With meager financial resources, and in the face of this constant, insistent harrassment, the Avatar may have to close up shop in frustration and disgust. Long, expensive legal battles are a drag--and in this case, they may not even be possible...
Buddy Holly died in a plane crash. Elvis Presley retreated to the drive-in movie screen. And Chuck Berry stands here in the basement. "I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad." The workmen continue to drag furniture away, and Chuck Berry disappears...
Marxism-Leninism has proved to be both a bar to an efficient economy and a drag on agriculture. Under reforms first proposed by Kharkov University Economist Evsei Liberman, the Russians have chucked much Marxist dogma; there are now incentive bonuses for workers and farmers and greater discretion for factory managers...
...pattern, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has just laid down guidelines designed to reduce the risks assumed by a testifying defendant. In the first place, the court noted, the nature of the previous conviction is important. Eager prosecutors often try to drag in everything on the record. In the future, said the court, it might be well to restrict previous crimes mentioned to those "which reflect adversely on a man's honesty and integrity." Acts of violence, the opinion continued, do not seem to have much to do with truth-telling, while "acts...
Speed kills. It really does. Amphetamine, methedrine, etc. can, and will, rot your teeth, freeze your mind and kill your body. The life expectancy of the average speed freak, from the first shot to the morgue, is less than five years. What a drag...