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...bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep pulses racing. Hearts pound in chests "like a hammer against an anvil." Women have a habit of showing up not simply undressed but "completely naked...
...they met in was never designed for large meetings of this sort, with the result that most of the governors were compelled to stand or to sit on tables. As the meeting progressed, panic was raging overhead on the floor . . . The feelings of those present were revealed by their habit of continually lighting cigarettes, taking a puff or two, putting them out and lighting new ones -- a practice which soon made the narrow room blue with smoke." After due deliberation, they decided to let the market run its course. By the end of that Black Tuesday, a record 16.4 million...
...most fundamental questions, economists agree with the closest approach to unanimity they ever achieve, are: How long will the U.S. try to live it up on borrowed money? And can it summon the will to start the painful readjustment necessary to kick the habit -- a readjustment that grows more painful the longer...
Last year it was novel. None of us had made a habit of going out for coffee before we arrived in Cambridge...
...corroborated, a number of former CIA officials interviewed by TIME, including ex-CIA Chiefs William Colby and Stansfield Turner and former Deputy Chief Bobby Inman, gave the book generally good marks for accuracy in the episodes with which they were directly involved. Their major complaint is Woodward's habit of overdramatizing and embellishing quotes. Says Inman: "Everything's just a couple of degrees more colorful than it really...