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Martin, the man of high emotions, saw the championship-as he saw everything-in personal terms. "This was a goddam tough team to manage. I held this club together. That man," he said, referring to Steinbrenner, "almost cost us the pennant." Steinbrenner saw it more coldly. "We put this team together without Billy; we got him the best players money could buy. He's crazy to take the credit for our success...
...their 250,000 employees are overseen by state or federal agencies-the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-which over the years have issued hundreds of regulations. Complained an official of the Federal Reserve: "We've got so many goddam rules now, there aren't enough hours in the day to keep them alphabetized, much less working." The regulations tightly limit the way in which banks can do business-for instance, by setting a 5% ceiling on the savings-account interest that they can pay and prohibiting them from refusing...
...Adam Smith's. We have a reasonably free society. People, including people who play first base, are privileged to offer their skills to the highest bidder. Personally, I prefer this to either monopoly sport or socialized sport. A lot I knew, said a radio listener in Dallas. The goddam greedy athletes were ruining the game...
...Seven goddam thousand dollars for this?" Lou took in the whole scene with a sweep of his arm--the superette, the bunker, the parking lot where the '68 Olds sat piled high with Carlo's Advents and his homemade afghan and his old movie posters. "What's so goddam special about this place...
...silently, side-splittingly funny that his roommate talked and walked so slowwwwllyyy. Camfort saw now the methedrine stacked all over the room, and smiled back, then went on with his search for cigarettes. "Sure you haven't got any Luckies, Bell, Jesus Christ you got to have some Luckies. Goddam, didn't anybody go out and buy Luckies last night? Waht did you do, anyway?" I made a tremendous drug deal, you dumb bastard, Bell thought contentedly behind the inscrutable smile, and Reed disdainfully, with a sneer that spread across his face like jam on a child's that belied...