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King, who professed never to write speeches before engagements, said he was pressured to give a topic for his speech six months in advance. So he told the Rotarians that he would speak about the future of the American merchant marine, a topic he said yesterday that he neither knew of nor cared about...
When he was introduced after a long history of the American merchant marine during which he was “falling asleep [and] the audience [was] orgasmic,” he made a snap decision—“if you don’t know something, leave it alone...
...sticker price. After allowing for dealer profits, that leaves a negative return for Ford. The Altima, meanwhile, earns Nissan an estimated $1,500 (beyond the dealer's profit), contributing to the company's fat overall operating margin of 10.8%. You know the joke about the merchant who loses a little money on each sale but says, "I'll make it up on volume"? Don't tell that joke in Detroit...
...Conversely, cities decayed because of internal and social strife, costly military campaigns to maintain trading empires or other commercial interests, protectionism, inability to adapt to changing economic conditions and intolerance toward minority groups, which encouraged merchant families or religious minorities to leave. And there has been another, frequently overlooked agent of urban decline: disease. For example, the Black Death, caused by the Pasteurella pestis, reappeared in Europe in 1346 when the port city of Kaffa was besieged by the Mongol leader Kipchak khan Janibeg, who catapulted dead bodies into the city (the first recorded case of biological warfare). The plague...
...company staged the Vagina Monologues and an all-female version of The Merchant of Venice earlier this year, as well as an anti-war reading of Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata...