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...purchase concrete for road building instead of being compelled to shop in the U.S. at considerably higher cost. In the process, the economy of Uganda, which also receives American aid, will be helped. Such examples may not be numerous, however, since the things underdeveloped nations most want can be pur chased only in industrialized countries...
...left for what it is as long as Friedman sticks to the mimicry of detective-story dialogue, journalism cliches, police-blotter prose, and the series of burlesque lech-skits that give The Dick its basic shape. But when, as he does at the end, Friedman tries to graft existential pur pose onto his low-comedy hero, the ques tion becomes an embarrassment. Any second banana could have told him it wouldn't shtik...
...instant obsolescence, fashionable slang wears out faster than most commodities. What is very lively in Kansas City today may brand a user as quaint in Manhattan or the Bay Area. It thus becomes periodically necessary, as French Poet Stéphane Mallarmé once suggested, donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu -to purify the dialect of the tribe...
...Ling's largest problem was his pur chase of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
...Disregarding for the moment pur terrible terrestrial predicament, what is needed in the air are small vertical or short takeoff aircraft operating with a minimum of fuss, short loading times, and flying only when and where demanded. The next installment fashioned by our current political incompetents is the ultimate mumbo jumbo of aviation-the bloody, ear-splitting SST. We have been to the moon and demonstrated some kind of "supremacy"; why not call it quits...