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...weakness may be fears that President Reagan, because of his recent brush with cancer, will not be able to serve out his full term. Says Alfred Roth, the chief currency trader at New York City's Chemical Bank: "So much of this market is not just economics. It's pure psychology, and Reagan's health has done a lot to hurt the dollar." Agrees Pierre Rinfret, a New York-based economic consultant: "Confidence in President Reagan's leadership made the dollar a strong, upbeat currency for roughly three years. New uncertainties about the President's health will erode confidence...
...Humor Anonymous Lawyer www.anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com Deadpan and ironic, this delicious insider account of life at a big law firm is pure fiction-and should be required reading for attorneys who haven't yet learned how to laugh at themselves. Being a lawyer, according to the author, boils down to "fooling clients into believing [we] have some real expertise and using fear and manipulation to extort excessive hourly fees." He rails against idiot clients, partners and associates, admitting "you can't work at a place like this and have integrity." But he's not offering apologies, only rationalizations. What separates him from...
...next year she found her great role, as Annie Sullivan, the half-blind teacher of the blind and deaf Helen Keller, in Gibson's The Miracle Worker. Bancroft's ferocity, starkly colliding and beautifully meshing with Patty Duke's as Helen, made the play (and the 1962 film) a pure, intense parable of love. As Mrs. Robinson sucked life out of her prey, Annie forced life into Helen's isolated mind...
...assign on an application basis. Beer trucks would distribute unlimited free draft beer to those with wristbands, and individual vehicles could bring additional drinks, provided they followed Massachussetts’ liquor transportation laws, which limit the amount of alcohol any one car can carry to one gallon pure alcohol total...
...Charles P. Slichter ’45, a beloved physicist and chemist at the University of Illinois, the swap of a businessman for an academic seemed to augur a marked corporatization of the Corporation. But Summers was taking the board in a slightly more specific direction. His appointees were pure economists by training, men most likely to concur with his empirical approach to university governance. And perhaps more importantly, the three economists—Summers, Rubin, and Reischauer, stewards of the golden era of the Clinton economy—were all pals. It would be far more difficult...