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...third period the Clarkson zone resembled a shooting gallery, as Harvard built up an 8-1 lead. Even the seldom-used Wiz Wyatt got into the act, putting away one goal...
Finally, governments facilitate sales by making available the credits required by nearly every customer but the rich oil exporters. Paris has won contracts for French firms by frequently offering longer credit at lower interest than other Western countries. Seldom, however, does anyone underbid the Russians...
...there are more customers than ever before. Since World War II, the creation of 75 new nations has meant the formation of a comparable number of new armies. Because military elites often play major roles in the early stages of the new states, their demands for more equipment can seldom be ignored. "No military branch wants to be saddled with old or obsolete equipment that reflects adversely on the dignity of the service," dryly notes a 1973 Rand Corp. study on the transfer of arms to Latin America...
Embargoes have seldom proved much of a barrier to the arms trade. Paris has readily ignored them, selling weapons to South Africa, Pakistan, India and Latin America when no other major exporter would. In the 1960s the U.S. tried to cool tensions in South Asia by restricting its arms
Molelike Creatures. On the opening page Gill seems to side with Ross. New Yorker writers, he claims, "tend to be lonely, molelike creatures, who work in their own portable darkness and who seldom utter a sound above a groan." In theory, no one who was not there gives a damn about this loving reliquary -anecdotes, old cartoons, floor plans and interoffice memos. Might it not be more fun to curl up with a rollicking treatise on varieties of corn blight or infrastructure at the Bank of America...