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...Brown to Brzezinski: "I think we have an abort situation. One helicopter at Desert One has hydraulic problem. We thus have less than the minimum six to go." C-130s to be used to extract. Request decision on mission termination from the President literally within minutes [because of the importance of completing the operation at night...
Such difficulties are not surprising. "These pills are made from kidney-bean extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...
...boon to executives with a voracious need for information about the state of their businesses. But some managers complain that computers are simply too hard to use. Mervyn Weich, 44, senior vice president of Zayre Corp., a retailing chain, says sitting in front of a terminal and trying to extract information is unacceptably difficult and time consuming. "If I could talk to the computer as easily as I talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work to punch in questions. My assistant is easier to work with...
...ideal of capitalism is to generate long-term wealth for the general welfare. Unfortunately, in everyday practice capitalists extract as much short-term profit as possible. As America concentrates more of its wealth in fewer but larger corporations, we will forsake our moral strength and ethical honesty. Novak may believe what he has written. However, his theory abandons all values save that of the dollar...
...money. Yet it is not at all true with books. For some reason a book borrower feels that a book, once taken, is his own. This removes both memory and guilt from the transaction. Making matters worse, the lender believes it too. To keep up appearances, he may solemnly extract an oath that the book be brought back as soon as possible; the borrower answering with matching solemnity that the Lord might seize his eyes were he to do otherwise. But it is all a play. Once gone, the book is gone forever. The lender, fearing rudeness, never asks...