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Dogging the Dow's progress are the limp performances of quite a few of its stocks, including Anaconda, United Aircraft, U.S. Steel and International Harvester. Profits of many of the big firms have been vitiated by recession, expropriation of their property abroad and muscular foreign competition. Because their size makes them so visible and the impact of their actions is so widespread, the prices that large firms charge are more tightly controlled than those of smaller companies...
Anyone who doubts the extent to which terror has been trivialized has only to plot the limp trajectory from Frankenstein to The Munsters. Or they can read Brock Brower's remarkable comic novel which, among other things, demonstrates just how difficult it has become to be a monster...
...future of the Board, Healy said that it would "continue but will limp along from now until the election...
...Stalinist days, Medvedev would have probably disappeared without a trace behind the walls of Lubianka prison. It is a measure of progress that Medvedev had only to endure obscene absurdities. Committees of psychiatrists tried to discredit his mind with such limp diagnoses as "poor adaptation to the social environment," and "obsessive reformist delusions." Such labels, as the Medvedevs note, could have also been pasted on Marx and Lenin...
...when I wouldn't stand up straight, threw me on the floor where I remained in a catatonic state. After four back-breaking hours shivering on the cell floor I was carried on the shoulders of two guards to a Secret Polic Captain for interrogation. I remained limp except for the cold spasms running through my body while they dumped alcohol and ice water over me to revive me, all the while making remarks about the war in Vietnam and the "world gendarmes of the U.S." Finally I was carried to another partly bare cell with a toilet where...