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...cats have stayed away. Such is the condition of the treasury at the Democratic National Committee that it has been unable to pay a considerable bill owed to American Airlines. After Committee Treasurer Donald Petrie hung up on an important representative of the airline and called him a "jerk" to boot, American canceled the committee's twelve credit cards. Key staffers are now planning to pay as they...
...application of lethal firepower." Much of the air war is now automated and instantaneous. B-52s move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors...
...that the protest is directed against a single target. Most importantly, "strike" means that in order to win our demands, we intend to deprive our opponent of something which he finds indispensable. The trouble is that so far, we at Harvard have used the word "strike" in a knee-jerk and fetishistic manner, without really asking ourselves whom the target is, how long our action must take to be effective, and what we must take from our opponent before he realizes that his current course of action will backfire against...
Kelly decided to bag college hockey next year and coach a WHA team, but he has neither players nor a rink to play in at this point, and his decision prompted one of his more outspoken detractors, the Bruin's Derek Sanderson, to describe Kelly as a "jerk" and a "fool" in the Boston Globe...
...first I checked the guest lists for all the dinners, but now only sometimes. Rose Woods [Rose Mary Woods, the President's personal secretary] takes care of that. One thing, though: I back my staff totally. If Rose Woods invites somebody and someone else says he's a jerk, I say, 'Maybe he's a jerk, but he was invited.' If anybody does anything for me that I've asked him to do, I back him totally. Nobody is ever dressed down for making a mistake...