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...neighboring observers didn't share Trevor's enthusiasm. "Bush league--get these jerks off!" they shouted as the band dog-trotted through its geometry. The Big Red swelled into a moving rendition of the Cornell alma mater. "Nice," thought Trevor. "Yeecch!" coughed someone behind him, spitting Tawny Port down the back of Trevor's neck...
...States wrote to tell me he had met the couple at a cocktail party, where they proudly boasted that they had made the grand tour round South America wholly on the largesse of gullible vice consuls like me. Their only expense was passage to the first foreign port, where they wangled enough money to get to the next one and so on round the cape and back home. Strandees who expect the Government to foot the whole bill are in effect trying to pass on their misfortunes to the long-suffering taxpayer...
...finally off his crutches. Fraud Farber has been getting in shape by playing a lot of golf in Angola over the summer, and Chuck "Sex-Blind" Daly will bring a lot of devious tricks from the expansion league ball clubs he played on at Hyannis Port and Hickory Hill. But you can't deny destiny Crime...
Under the agreement, the U.S. would contract to purchase some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas per day from the Urengoiskoye fields of north central Siberia. This gas will be piped 1,500 miles across permafrost to a warm-water port near Murmansk, where it will be liquefied and then transported by supertanker to the U.S. East Coast. At the same time, the U.S. agrees to purchase between 1.5 billion and 2.5 billion cu. ft. of gas per day from eastern Siberian fields near Yakutsk. This gas in turn will be transported by a U.S.-Japanese consortium...
...than the aggregate of less outrageous but still grossly inflated wages paid to workers throughout the $110 billion construction industry. Yet Dowd's semi-millionaire status is an example of needless expense that will be passed on in turn to the World Trade Center's owner (the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey), to the buildings' tenants and ultimately to the public. The cost of the Trade Center, originally projected in 1964 at $350 million, has steadily increased; including some work not planned on then, the total bill is now estimated at $700 million...