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...military traffic. Shops, offices, cinemas and most restaurants were shuttered. In the industrial belt, factories lay idle. By the union's estimate, some 8 million people took part in the strike. The protest ostensibly was a demand for higher wages to compensate for Argentina's runaway inflation, which reached an annual rate of 571% in August. In fact, it was a show of the unions' muscle before the elections, and a broadly based expression of outrage with Argentina's fumbling military leaders...
...cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...
Fear of crime transforms home protection into a runaway growth industry
Across the U.S., the rising fear of crime has turned the once sluggish home-security business into a runaway growth industry. Sales of burglar alarms and other residential safeguards have zoomed to nearly $900 million a year, up from $500 million in 1979, and are expanding at the dazzling annual rate of about 30%. Firms in the field range from industrial giants like Honeywell (1982 sales: $4.6 billion) to one-person outfits selling burglar alarms...
...about Suder's manager, an amateur taxidermist, who shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided to build a pair of wings and fly over a nearby body of water called Ezra Pond...