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...Arches pays all the pickle farmers they employ to stop producing sour cucumbers and begin producing staples like potatoes, grain and the like. What you've got here is the beginning of an international food distribution service. Since everyone throws out the pickles anyway, we eliminate waste and the needless production of a needless product...
Well, the Russian white knight, needless to say, comes equipped with someone for Elaine's friend, the Lurch-like Igor. After a slight misunderstanding regarding the difference between blowing them off and excusing themselves to go to the bathroom, the women nab both of the sailors for the night. And what a night it is--Theresa and Igor are energetically bouncing up and down on the bed while next door Elaine and Peter are holding hands, looking out at the stars, and thinking that they might be fallling in love with each other...
...Traders are wondering who might be the investigators' next target. Says one broker: "Everybody has done insider trading at one time or another." Observes a senior investment banker: "People used to joke around about insider trading. Now it's in extremely bad taste to crack such jokes." These days, needless to say, Dennis Levine and those who swapped secrets with him are not laughing...
...practice that helped him rake in more than $100,000 a year from Medicare patients alone. Balasco's penchant for pacemakers was well known to colleagues, his hospital and insurers. A peer review five years ago confirmed that dozens of his implants were unnecessary and had put patients in needless danger. But not until this year, when he was convicted for taking kickbacks from pacemaker manufacturers, did the medical board attempt to slow Balasco's pace...
Eighteen years after the assassinations of King and Kennedy, Congress is willing to forget about what happened without serious gun regulation. Public opinion hasn't changed; only Congress' willingness to risk the wrath of the NRA and prevent needless gun-related deaths...