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Next day it became clear that Healey's budget had not produced as much sunshine as Britons would like. The St. James's snow had melted all right, but the stock market plummeted, the recently resuscitated pound slipped again and the Liberals began to mutter threats of ending their pact with the Labor Party unless Healey came up with some bigger tax cuts. Reflecting the general mood of Britons, Conservative M.P. William Clark scowled: "The budget is a damp squib...
...helps change your perception of money. I now feel less guilty when I spend, for instance." Trainees are given "treasure maps" and told to paste in pictures of luxury items they wish they had. In a drill intended to build a proper sense of superiority, trainees pair off and mutter to one another: "You're weak, you're weak, you're noodle weak." At graduation time, each trainee is showered with gold sprinkles...
...this fact has not deterred imaginative relativity theorists. Refusing to believe that anything can vanish into nothingness, they have argued that when matter drops into a black hole, it may actually be entering a twisting, Einsteinian labyrinth through space and time. According to this hypothesis, before an astronomer can mutter E = mc2, the material pops out in some distant place many light-years away-perhaps in another universe...
...found guilty. (Richard also faces a much less serious charge of possession of cocaine.) Was this the kind of company for the wife of Canada's head of government to be keeping? Almost everybody except Margaret clearly felt not. Even Stones Drummer Charlie Watts was overheard to mutter to Bassist Bill Wyman, "I wouldn't want my wife associating with...
...final point tally, statisticians were heard to mutter, "I never thought Harvard would...