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...wine and honey in this world, but I've got a family and I take damned good care of them. My Bernie won't have to send his partner to jail. But he didn't land in this country with three words of English and fifty cents in his pocket, either, and there...
Beard's victory over Tiernan-23,787 votes to 22,025-left him with just $40 in his pocket. His annual salary as a painter is now $9,000 (he gets $300 extra as a state legislator), but he can look forward to receiving a raise to $42,500 next year. In a zealously Democratic district, Beard is favored to win in November over Vincent Rotondo, the little-known Republican candidate...
Clothing manufacturers and automobile designers are unwittingly responsible for a malady that Dr. Nathaniel Gould of Brockton, Mass., calls "back-pocket sciatica." Gould, who described the disorder in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, first became aware of it when a colleague who made a large number of house calls complained that he suffered from leg pains while sitting in the confining bucket seat of his sports car. Gould could find no obvious cause of the discomfort but noticed that the doctor carried a bulging wallet in his hip pocket. He speculated that the wallet might...
...tiny laboratories are housed in 1-ft. cubes and weigh only 30 lbs. apiece. Each is crammed with 140,000 electronic components-including 122,000 transistors-40 thermostats, three tiny ovens, bottled radioactive gases, one pocket-sized chromatograph (used to identify the chemical component of the substance under study) and a small xenon lamp that can simulate sunshine. Costing $16.9 million each, the labs can perform three different life-detection experiments without any human help...
...comments are forwarded to the offending eateries as well, because restaurant owners seldom get the benefit of the constructive criticism on the cards that T.I. members lay on the table. Waiters and waitresses surreptitiously pocket the telltale yellow complaints even faster than they snap up tips...