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...What a fool I've been! All these years spent living in houses I could afford, paying my bills each month, using my credit cards with care and doing without in order to eat, keep warm and meet medical expenses. How much easier it would have been just to say "charge it" and wind up paying only 16? on the dollar...
Taking as their credo the saying "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me," the Islanders stormed out of the locker room intent on quickly securing their third overtime win in four games. New York pressed for the coup de grace, but Cheevers denied numerous bids in the first few minutes of sudden death and gave his teammates a chance to gain equilibrium...
Kleindienst exploded. "Me? What happens to the President if I try a fool thing like that? Jesus Christ! What did you people think you were doing in there...
Wage and price controls are an attractive temptation, supported, according to the latest public opinion polls, by a strong majority of the American public. But they remain fool's gold. Studies show that once mandatory price restraints are removed prices soar as high as or perhaps even higher than they would without any legal restrictions. Virtually all free-market economists, whether liberals or conservatives, reject mandatory controls as ultimately detrimental in fighting the causes of inflation...
Bakshian's political outlook doesn't seep into the book; it overwhelms it. Any Democrat is either a fool or a lecher. While the author spends 10 single-spaced pages spelling out the intricacies of Chappaquiddick (and quoting George F. Will), he disregards Bush's role in the CIA, Connally's adventure in the dairy business and Reagan's innumerable bloopers. Instead of a balanced view of Big John, we are treated to a verbatim transcript of his plan for peace in the Middle East. To Bakshian, anything to the left of Eisenhower is deserving of slander. "So John Anderson...