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...course, the bourgeoisie deserved every bashing it took under Soviet communism: After the revolution, the Zhivago family had to retreat to a corner of their Moscow mansion and submit to the insults of the proletariat who moved in to abuse the former masters and break up the furniture for firewood...
...children have forgotten how meat tastes. Though Nigeria is the world's 10th largest oil exporter, motorists line up for six hours to buy gasoline -- and then must bribe the attendant to fill the tank. Propane for cooking is so scarce and expensive that city dwellers are scrambling for firewood or electric teakettles to boil their drinking water, provided the water is actually running and the erratic Nigerian Electric Power Authority is having one of its rare good days. "If things keep on as they are," says Joseph Garba, a former Foreign Minister, "Nigeria will go back to the Stone...
Used an FBI plane to haul firewood from New York City to Washington. (Sessions acknowledges flying the wood, but says it was only four pieces of white birch that his wife needed for decorating their house...
...office. A stinging report last month by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility included charges that he received preferential treatment on a home mortgage, allowed his wife to accompany him on 111 trips without compensating the government for her travel expenses, and flew a load of firewood on an FBI plane, among other offenses. To answer complaints of a double standard within the bureau, last month, shortly after the OPR report was made public, senior aides decided they would delay action against staff members who were accused of disobeying rules that the director himself had allegedly broken...
Probably the single biggest pitfall of prognostication is the assumption that current trends will extend indefinitely into the future, like those high rates of firewood consumption. Another peril is basing forecasts on assumptions about what science might be capable of producing without taking into account what people will actually welcome or demand. Two-way picture phones, for example, which went on sale in the 1960s, have yet to find a market largely because there has been no demand for them...