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...dealer asked his guest if he had heard about the fugitive "vigilante" who had shot four youths he felt were threatening him on a New York subway. "How did you hear about it?" the visitor asked. "He was interested in it," said Stotler, "but he didn't try to pin me down for details." After a while, the New Yorker left without purchasing a book. "I thought he was a nice guy," Stotler said. "And after hearing what he did, I still...
...devices. Sensormatic of Boca Raton, Fla., has some 200 million tags in 40,000 detection systems in stores around the world. Shops originally hid the tags inside each piece of merchandise, but the devices were so successful that too many criminals were being caught. Retailers now generally pin them on the outside of garments so that they will just deter would-be thieves...
...have been all confusing on the screen. To the rescue came two other former soldiers from the raj, Scriptwriter Ken Taylor and Sir Denis Forman, the chairman of Granada and the project's prime mover. Their no-nonsense solution was to chop up yard-length segments of wallpaper, pin them on the walls of a large room and sort out a chronological story line by writing an outline of events on each square. In the process, they preserved nearly all the equivocal situations and ragged-edged characters that are often more eloquent than Scott's words...
...probably lacked the military know-how to carry off such a risky mission without endangering the lives of all the hostages on board. And without the direct cooperation of Iranian officials, no outside power was likely to intervene to end the deadlock by military means. In an effort to pin the blame on Kuwait, Iranian radio reported last week that Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said Iran was ready to "bring about a military solution," but Kuwait refused to approve the plan...
Nesson: Its hard to pin it in any given place. Times and Sullivan was an opinion written with the best of intentions and great ambition by a great justice who I think didn't see the pitfalls of opening up the subject in the particular ways that he was opening it up...Once you set a kind of an open-ended agenda in an adversary system where there are high stakes, its inevitable...