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...administration, informed eight real estate officials that their jobs would no longer exist under the new organization. Wyatt told them they could reapply for positions in the new firm, but talk to a few of these officials and the general consensus is that somebody is trying to get rid of them. Or, as one member of the department expressed it, "If you're a paranoid person, there might be a lot here to be paranoid about...
...visit Tyre, a U.N. liaison officer warned: "You could try it, but you might be arrested. They would arrest anyone from Israel." Palestinian troops patrol the pocket, set up roadblocks, question and detain whomever they want. The only way to travel, suggested the U.N. official, was to get rid of anything-papers, money, candy wrappers, that would indicate you were from Israel. And wristwatches, he added, should be set forward one hour to conform with Lebanese time. The time difference was a dead giveaway to Palestinian interrogators...
...mizu shobai, or "water business." it is a $40 billion enterprise, enhanced by 100,000 conveniently located vending machines dispensing hard liquor, beer and sake 24 hours a day. "In Japan," explains a Tokyo businessman, "alcohol plays the role of psychiatry in the West. Instead of analysis, we get rid of our inhibitions with a few drinks. I think we would explode without it." Kazuo Shimada, a psychologist, agrees: "If they were forced to go on the wagon, many Japanese would simply go bang." Yet another survey discloses that 63% of all Japanese males gave an unequivocal...
...nice girl once she loosens up. Of course, they have their tempestuous moments, but what marriage doesn't have its rough spots? The pair settle down very nicely together on the yacht or his private island, and she even gets used to his little quirks - like not getting rid of his mistress after the marriage. Later, following the death of his son, Theo is seen suddenly to age. Liz shows a steely side; she is frightfully patient as he turns into Zorba right be fore her eyes...
When Jane arrived at the small travel agency in Chelsea at which she worked the morning after the idiotic story had broken, her boss came out and said: "You'd better come in and tell the press to go to hell. Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't." The press besieged her physically, and she couldn't get out of the shop. Flash...