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MINISTER (gesturing to temple). Oh, they know, all right...they knew. Once. But they must have forgot. That place of worship is like a string tied around their finger...
News of the trade deficit chilled the stock market, and by December prices on the Tokyo Exchange had plummeted 30%. For months the market had been rising so joyously that investors forgot it could ever decline, and common people had become such avid speculators that brokerage houses opened offices in department stores for the convenience of housewives. Reluctantly, Ikeda raised interest rates to discourage further borrowing for expansion and put curbs on imports. As a result, the trade deficit has gradually begun to improve and stock prices have started recovering...
Unhappily, lesser theologians forgot this sound advice. When Galileo peered through his telescope four centuries later and saw a heliocentric rather than a geocentric universe, the result was conflict between baffled theologians and fascinated scientists. The Roman Inquisition forced Galileo to "abjure, curse and detest the aforesaid errors," but science was not to be stopped that easily...
...interrupted by World War I, in which he was badly wounded while serving in the Austrian army, and again by the anti-German sentiment of wartime U.S. audiences. In 1941, he was struck by a truck in Manhattan. He recovered after days in a coma, but for a time forgot all modern languages and could speak only Latin and Greek. After 1950, Fritz Kreisler did not play publicly and rarely played privately...
...Schlieffen had reiterated: "Make the right wing strong." But his successor, General Helmuth von Moltke, was a Christian Scientist, a cello player, and a cautious man: he weakened the right wing to strengthen the line elsewhere. When the preposterous Russians, unequipped, untrained and unafraid, invaded East Prussia, Moltke forgot Schlieffen and diverted two corps from the Belgian drive to the Russian front. The two corps were never needed; General Erich Ludendorff routed the Russians at Tannenberg before his reinforcements arrived...