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...combat veterans, do not hide their frustration over the restrictions on their role. They feel hamstrung by the tight security that protects them against combat casualties or assassination ("a professional risk," says one officer). They would prefer to observe their students in the field, rather than depend on secondhand reports. They are unable, for instance, to assess how aggressive the Salvadoran soldiers are on combat patrols or in firefights with the guerrillas...
...furniture, some secondhand, was provided by the I.R.C.: two double beds, three single beds, a table, a chest of drawers and seven chairs for the seven siblings. The walls are bare except for a Buddhist shrine. It is cold. The Trinhs' apartment has been getting little heat during New York City's cold winter...
...constantly complains about "those damn Ryder people." That is hardly surprising because Ryder System Inc. is the nation's largest truck-leasing firm. But the grumbling executive is none other than James A. Ryder, 67, who founded Ryder in 1934 with a $35 down payment on a $200 secondhand Model A Ford truck...
Right from the start, Dali was a glacial opportunist with weak powers of formal invention. He was also precocious and adroit, and so, as one might expect, his early work is an anthology of secondhand manners. He begins as a late-Picasso cubist, turning out bland art deco still lifes that contain a few premonitions of his later imagery; the lank, droopy fish in Moonlit Still Life, 1927, for example, predicts the flaccidity that was to appear in his soft watches and piano lids. But he did not find a style until he came to Paris and met the surrealists...
...crisis as well as financial reasons-underlies the new spirit. More people are scheduling meatless meals. Some are raising vegetables for reasons other than taste. Solid citizens have taken to buying used clothing, and garage and tag sales are chic in many neighborhoods. Families are also turning to secondhand markets for things like bikes and lawnmowers. The oldtime comforter is replacing the electric blanket in some bedrooms. In certain areas people are taking more shoes to shops for repair; in others, the business of mending goods like handbags, belts and golf bags...