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...based on Billy's normal schedule of four appearances a month at $5,000 an exposure. In addition, the President's brother is the beneficiary, through a complicated royalty formula, of sales of "Billy" beer, which is soon expected to be sold in 48 states. He gets rake-offs on other Billy paraphernalia...
...first, but in Beirut these days the scene is almost a daily occurrence. A Lebanese merchant who had abandoned his shop at the height of fighting in the 1975-76 civil war appears at the door one morning, surveys the damage and sets about the job of reopening. Raking out waist-high rubble and empty shell casings the merchant uncovers the rotting remains of an unknown man, stripped naked by brigands of who can say which side. The owner, a Christian, shifts his rake to his left hand and crosses himself with his right. Then he pushes the body...
...Democratic Party fund-raising dinner in Des Moines, some 3,500 people cheered often as the President again assailed the big oil companies, charging that deregulation of natural gas prices would produce "big profit rake-offs and huge cost increases to the American consumers." The price could go so high, Carter told farmers in the audience, with some hyperbole, that "you might just as well burn cash to heat your homes or dry your crops." Sure, his energy plan was "bitter medicine," he conceded, but it was better than the "true catastrophe" that would follow without it. The President spent...
Authorities have sent in 4,856 fire fighters, toting "Pulaskis"-a combination hoe and ax-and "McClouds"-a wide rake. On twelve-hour shifts, the crews cut brush and trees with hand tools and chain saws to bar the approaching blaze. Most find the service exhilarating. Said one woman from Santa Cruz: "It's the most exciting thing anyone...
...aspect of a 12-meter from drawing board to helm. Hood has decades of Cup experience -including a dramatic last-minute takeover of a struggling Courageous and a four-race sweep of Australian contender Southern Cross in 1974-and his considerable knowledge and skill were poured into the lovely rake of his boat's hull and the complex curves of her sails. But Independence has been a lackluster performer, winning only seven races while losing 13, despite a full year of sea trials, including frigid sorties in the dead of a most bitter winter...