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Jack had some firm ideas. If the news was good, he would not tell his two siblings who tested positive. "I wouldn't tell them that I'm lucky and reconfirm that they're unlucky," he said. He was so certain that he neither wanted nor needed counseling that he had not yet picked the "confidant" who the program stipulates must accompany him to future sessions. "After what I've been through the last 18 months," he said, "I can handle anything...
...KNOW A GOVERNMENT program is in trouble when it's less credible than a flying saucer. At a Senate committee hearing last month to reconfirm Shirley Chater as commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming confronted Chater with a poll showing that more people under the age of 35 believe in UFOs than in the prospect that Social Security will pay them benefits upon retirement. Whatever the merits of their judgment on extraterrestrials, on Social Security the new workers have it exactly right. Given enough time, reality bites...
...sums around the world via computers and phone lines. The bank's biggest customers routinely call this department to transfer funds, often paying money directly into suppliers' accounts. As at most banks, transfers require that a First Chicago employee call back another executive at the customer's offices to reconfirm the order, using various code numbers. All such calls are automatically taped. Taylor had access to the codes and knew the names of the appropriate executives at various corporations. The gang's original plan called for stealing $232 million from the accounts of quite a few companies, including Hilton...
...their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them to reconfirm their statements at Reykjavik," said a U.S. participant. "But they wouldn't even do that. We just went round and round...
Fassi originally contained his office about the visit while "We were busy in our City Hall trying to figure out our heating oil budget. "Vellcci states in the letter. He adds that the Sheik "called hour office time again to confirm, reconfirm and then reconfirm his visit...