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...adventurer "working outside official circles," he puts himself in mind of Alexander the Great, though he can also go on about Lord Nelson and Jiminy Cricket. "Who is this Jiminy Cricket?" inquired a Soviet journalist last week, and the man's eyes grew at the rate of Pinocchio's nose when he heard Turner explain, "Jiminy Cricket was a conscience of a little wooden...
...another era, the selling wave would have signaled a stock-market catastrophe. But, surprisingly, there was nothing akin to a major panic on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week, even as the four-year-old bull market took a sudden nose dive and the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks suffered its largest single-day decline in history. Only six days after breaking through the 1900 level for the first time ever, the Dow plunged 61.87 points, to 1839, on the week's opening day. On Tuesday the bears were again on the prowl...
...Lebanese official said the drug smugglers took Donahue hostage "for poking his nose" into their affairs. Last October, Donahue's wife said he had agreed to work as a U.S. informant following his 1982 arrest on drug charges...
...shapes and sizes. At the rate of just twelve a day, the armatures have been replaced by individually forged steel bars. The exterior, blemished by acid rain and 100-year accretions of bird excrement, was bathed and scrubbed. Only two bits of grafting were necessary: the tip of the nose and some hair curls are new copper...
...where you can get drunk on very little money. Watered down beer when bought in bulk is not very expensive. There are a long list of rules outside the door, which you shouldn't break because if you do it is likely a very large man will break your nose...