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...roommate goes to his desk and finds a scrap of paper inscribed with the words "Eat Me" on top of his Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary...
...prospects are that the triumvirate will quietly scrap Costa's plan for a revised constitution and a civilian Congress. For the present, Lyra Tavares can be expected to pursue Costa e Silva's role as a "moderator" in fending off the Young Turk officers who want the military to clamp an even firmer grip on the country. That is a task that may grow more difficult now that the original moderator has been muted...
Under intense pressure from the financial community, Kennedy proposed to water down the House's tough tax treatment of long-term capital gains. The House bill would scrap the maximum 25% tax rate on such gains and force investors to hold their stocks and other property for a year instead of six months to qualify for such favored treatment. Kennedy would retain the old rules, but limit the amount of gains to which they could be applied...
...Southern California, and signed a $50,000 contract with the Atlanta Braves. Major league officials ruled the contract void, and after that, the Mets, along with the Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians, made offers to Seaver. The league decreed that the contest should be settled by lot, and the scrap of paper drawn out of a hat read "Mets...
...human bomb. In one novel, a beautiful woman feeds for 20 years on the high-held hope that she will one day, somehow, be able to chop up her lover with a machete. In another, a man sets out, in more sinister fashion, to learn by heart every last scrap of information the world contains about cheese. Even minor characters are wound up and whirring, their eyes empty and locked on apocalypse...