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Such strained fictions have always seemed a lot of fuss to ichthyologists. Why bother to wake the creatures of unimaginably distant geologic ages when you can find, in a condition essentially unchanged for 63 million years, a creature cruising handily off every beach in the world who once shared the planet with dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs and is as strange, unpredictable and dangerous as those bad old boys...
Other reasons for the silent exits are more self-serving. Dissidents do not prosper in Washington. The man who makes his opposition known quietly, then leaves without a fuss is likely to be rewarded with another high-level post later on. If he publicly tells why he is leaving, however, he is, the authors say, almost always left out in the cold thereafter. "Further prospects of service in the Executive Branch are out of the question. Appointments to the Judiciary are unlikely to be proffered. Election to Congress is virtually precluded...
...English countryside, which he loves, in his own curious way. He denies having been influenced by the ecology movement of the past decade: I've known and loved this countryside since about 1925. And I look back to more pleasant days when there wasn't so much damn fuss about the ecology and there were far fewer cars and people. In those days you could hear yourself think and get about...
...agency, regarding a report on the future of the Vietnamese economy, last year--explains now. "For about ten years I'd go down there and review their papers on national economic matters: I've never been the cloak-and-dagger type. But naturally they made a big fuss about it," he concludes, with something close to approval. "That's good tactics...
...arcane and specialized corner of Wall Street, the bond market is usually a place where corporations can count on raising enormous sums of money -$12 billion in just the first three months of this year-with little fuss. But recently the market has been anything but placid. Prices have been dropping so fast, interest rates rising so rapidly and bonds going unsold in such numbers that some veteran traders say that the market is "in disarray...