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...saying Libya will never try to develop or possess a nuclear weapon...
...primitives do for luck's strange intercessions, but they generally adopt a strategy both passive and fatalistic, a stoical mixture of rationalism and resignation to luck's works. Today it is mainly gamblers who stay on intimate and dangerous terms with luck and try to tame and possess it. Here and there, state lotteries have tried to bureaucratize luck-a dreary business and a contradiction in terms...
...guzzlers has for too long been fed by the pipe dream of cheap gasoline prices. In fact, expectations during the '70s that oil would remain cheap stymied Detroit's efforts to sell an array of smaller models at a profit. The Japanese have shown us that we no longer possess a monopoly on technological creativity and innovation. Spurred by the Japanese example, the American spirit of cooperation and enterprise can come through when put to the test...
...Danube, Sontheim is the home of Rōhm GmbH, a 74-year-old firm that makes drilling equipment and cheap handgun parts. West Germans have little use for Rohm weapons. The country's gun ownership laws are strict, and the relatively few people who do qualify to possess handguns tend to choose Gun Seller Goldstein better-made and more expensive models. Thus, most Rohm gun parts-perhaps $1 million worth a year, although company officials refuse to be exact -are shipped through Bremen and Hamburg to the U.S., where there is one pistol for every four citizens...
...target she scarcely had to. But she brings to this item of juvenilia the mark of an accomplished satirist: she sets foolishness off against an implied moral world. Near the end of her narrative, Laura recalls meeting a plain girl named Bridget: "She could not be supposed to possess either exalted Ideas, Delicate Feelings or refined Sensibilities - She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil & obliging Young Woman ..." To her later glory, Jane Austen was to make a lasting place in English fiction for such plain creatures...