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...Camerawork. For all his adrenal meanderings, Tarden is not without wit. He often affects an officer's uniform of no known country, then parades through towns watching functionaries cringe and scrape before him. By seizing upon the paranoid fantasies of East European officials, he forces a bureaucracy to fall of its own weight and makes good his escape-as did his creator 18 years...
...hard to unstick the hull from the seabed. It was a nerve-racking process. The submarine's dead weight of at least 4,000 tons taxed even Glomar Explorer's powerful winches. The ship shuddered and reverberated with the protesting scream of straining electric engines and the scrape of taut steel cables...
...corporations dealing with Russia for help. Goldman explains that few corporations would want to pump money into a center "that Russians see as critical of their regime." Ulam must rely on a recently-authorized team fund raising effort, the first of its kind, joining forces with Columbia to scrape together the funds to keep both their Russian research centers alive. "Even if we could expect money from Russia," says Ulam, "we wouldn't like to be financed by a government we study...
...notice, however, that his friends--who he always felt were more in the know than he--regarded him with a new air of respect. When he would scrape together enough pennies for a quick visit to his local tavern, he would walk in and hear people whispering quietly almost reverentially, about how the United States needed more people like Walter Ripperton to pull itself out of the recession...
...maximum: $95 per week. If he earned less than $189, he gets roughly half his previous pay. Nationwide, according to the Labor Department, the tax-free payments average $61 per week, which comes out to 40% of the worker's previous take-home pay. Understandably, many families cannot scrape by on that amount...