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...better suited than himself. First, he insists, Aramco does not gouge its clients (though many are doctors and other professionals who can expect to make large salaries in the West). "I have not increased my prices, in spite of inflation," he insists. "My profit margin is only 25%. The overhead is tremendous...
...overhead is for staff...
...elsewhere the streets are tightly packed and the sidewalks obstructed with signs and display cases. Bright commerce battles an overall mood of grey and white, the theme derived from the cool and erratically rainy sky overhead, taken up by the architecture--white panelled, glassed to reflect that sky, blocky as the crossword puzzles everyone works automatically--and completed in the hair, faces, gait, and sternness of the abundant elderly...
...worked at 9 a.m. and took me away. I have a wife and six children. They do not know where I am. I do not want to be a soldier. I don't want to die." The camp is already filled with 2,000 such pathetic men, while overhead American jets streak past and drop their loads of bombs only 2½ miles away...
...well-informed Western intelligence officer observes that "while the government's forces have been going downhill, the insurgents have been improving." Even usually optimistic Premier In Tam candidly allowed that the military situation was going "from bad to worse." Villagers flee devastated hamlets as American warplanes drone overhead. Roads leading to Phnom-Penh are crowded with refugees, their pots, mattresses, bedframes and children piled high on ox-drawn carts...