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Alan Riding of the New York Times, went because of repeated warnings from Salvadoran friends. At week's end eight journalists who drove up to inspect the site where the Dutch died had a scare that suggested the list could be taken more seriously. Armed men jumped out of a cattle truck, demanded identification and acted menacing. Said Photographer Susan Meiselas: "We all thought this...
...client. After refusing twice, McKenna finally agreed. For advice on how to raise money, Jobs consulted both McKenna and Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine later asked McKenna: "Why did you send me this renegade from the human race...
...plans were selected in time for Harvard to give a green light for the renovations from the city rent control board, but not nearly early enough for the tenants to defend themselves adequately against the University's request. The completed plan gave the tenants a long list to inspect, calling for repairs, which, if approved by the rent board, would send the rent at the Craigie Apartments soaring to more than $700 a month...
...businessmen started bartering goods or issuing private scrip, Roosevelt's financial experts worked late into the night to patch together a rescue bill. That bill effectively took the U.S. off the gold standard and thus promised easier money in days to come; it also authorized the Treasury to inspect all closed banks and gradually reopen them with various guarantees of solvency. The only copy of the bill was rushed to the House as soon as it reconvened at noon Thursday, and after half an hour of debate, there came cries of "Vote! Vote!" That vote
...American self-expression that Wolfe claims is not there? His book does not broach that possibility, yet it makes more sense of upper Sixth Avenue or downtown Houston than all his rattlings about the passivity of corporate clients. But then, there was probably no time to inspect the matter. He had a book to finish...