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...estimate is that 6 million Italian workers, one-third of the labor force, are employed in the underground economy. The latest attempt at a crackdown: a law to make cash registers compulsory in the 800,000 (out of 1.2 million) retail stores that now keep their money in a drawer...
...eagerly I waited, that first week, for life--my only real one--to compose itself with the room as I have it: midnight: the mirror: the window bulged with my Dreams like firelight--like the bottomless drawer of an old chest...
...professor shook his head, and opened up his middle drawer I'm sorry," he said pulling out his black grade book. "I've made an effort to work things out here, really I have. "He flipped through the book until he found the page he was looking for. "Here we are," he said "I'm afraid my little attempt to loosen you up hasn't proven too successful I really have no other choice. You will have to receive a C for the course...
...suggest that this is really curtains forever for "Doonesbury" --that Trudeau's line about a "vacation" is a ploy to ease readers into the more terrible truth--and finally, let us fantasize. Maybe Garry Trudeau still draws a strip every day and puts it away in a drawer. Maybe in 1984 at the end of his sabbatical, he'll set them all free--more than 500 brand new sequences, more than 2000 new frames-- and we'll all put down our books, walk out of our classes and spend the day with our new treasures, with our old friends, with...
...Packard; and Jobs who gave the fledgling company a name ("One day I just told everyone that unless they came up with a better name by 5 p.m., we would go with Apple"). In 1977, when the Apple II was introduced, the company receipts were kept in a desk drawer. By 1980, when Apple went public, it had sales of $139 million...