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...Radcliffe. Looking back I can pick out some of the worst incidents. One night, two guys came in, ordered two cups of coffee and twenty creams, and said. "We're on welfare; it's the cheapest nourishment we can get." They drank all the creams and built a little pyramid of empty creamer cups--with no tip underneath. Another night, I dropped a tray of Muffins on the floor, began to throw them all away, and found the manager scowling down at me, asking what I was doing. "Those muffins are perfectly good," he said...
...Democrats cast ballots as a first step in choosing Arizona's delegates. Similarly, in the state of Iowa some 45,000 Democrats cared enough to venture out in a January blizzard to attend 2,600 precinct caucuses and make their preferences known at the base of the selection pyramid...
...medical bureaucrats obviously misjudged the national reputations of both Medvedevs and the courage of their eminent friends, who besieged officials up and down the Soviet power pyramid. The fiercest outcry came from Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who condemned punitive psychiatry as "spiritual murder...
...hints as "Develop a Positive Mental Attitude" and "Remember Everybody's Name." Complaints about the course, which costs up to $5,000 to complete, have brought legal actions in eight states. In Davidson County, Tenn., five "Dare to Be Great" salesmen were arrested for violating a law against pyramid selling. Since Turner is sole owner of his companies, he does not have to report his total sales volume, but with his usual extravagance, he estimates it as running into hundreds of millions of dollars...
...calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred investigations: attorneys general and other authorities in 30 states have started legal actions against him or his companies. The Iowa Supreme Court two weeks ago barred his major company from selling franchises in the state and condemned all such pyramid sales schemes as "a cancerous vice against which the public should be protected...