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There are particular people who should be very much on our minds and consciences. We owe special honor and comfort to the families of the Americans who gave their lives in Viet Nam, and we owe a special scorn to any politicians who might seek to exploit their sorrow. We owe far better medical care to the Viet Nam wounded than they are getting in many of our hospitals. We must, of course, bring home our prisoners from North Viet Nam, though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace...
...declaring his support for McGovern, Galbraith said. "He is the best bet by far to put the Pentagon back in its place. We owe him a great debt on Vietnam. He is in no way mortgaged to the four-year locusts of American democracy, the big New York and Texas moneybags who place their bets on whatever contenders will most reward them...
...Even today, Japanese companies generally get more than 80% of their financing from loans and less than 20% from sale of stock?about the opposite of the ratio in the U.S. Nagano estimates that Nippon Steel's debt is equal to what four or five American steel companies would owe. To a Western executive that might seem to leave the economy extremely vulnerable to a Penn Central-type collapse. Japanese find that being in hock has its advantages: corporate Pooh-Bahs do not have to worry about paying high dividends or showing plump profits to keep stockholders happy...
Romantic Belief. Ford later said that he was the virtual author of Conrad's story Amy Foster and that he was both better off and better known than Conrad. Both claims were balderdash. Yet as Mizener shows, Conrad did owe a good deal to Ford, who did in fact once write a 16-page installment of Nostromo. To show how close their literary relationship was, Mizener quotes a letter from Conrad proposing to sell one of Ford's stories as his own. A newspaper syndicate had asked for a story, but Conrad had none ready. Could Ford spare...
...Mayday tribespeople made a brave try to shut down the administration of a vicious war, and we who were not there owe them honor and emulation. Their action will be a failure only if their spirit dies in Washington...