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...each new work of mine was not a cause for rejoicing but for sorrow. Because my writing appears in such an ugly, false and misshapen form, and I am ashamed to look people in the face. To write a good book in the Soviet Union, that is still the simplest thing to do. The real trouble begins only later, when you try to get it published. For the past ten years, I have been living in a state of constant, unavoidable and irresolvable contradiction. Finally, I have simply given...
...simplest policy decisions now meet extensive delays. For example, a regulation that would apply the requirements of the Truth in Lending Act to margin loans has been debated since May without a decision, and no final action has been taken on a proposed rule regarding corporate names. Under the rule, a company's registration statement to sell stock would be deemed misleading if the company's name contained such words as "missile" or "space" but the firm did no work in those fields...
...been improper for me to comment on these matters." Scarcely anything he finally did say, however, could have damaged his legal case. In any event, the damage to his public case and reputation was so shattering that an early accounting was in his overriding interest. For six days the simplest details remained unexplained and were an endless source of speculation. Until Kennedy went before the cameras, a report by a county deputy sheriff, Christopher Look, that he had seen three people in a car headed toward the bridge at 12:40 a.m.?almost an hour and a half after...
...exposing contradiction, the intellectual limitations of the direct cinema style are stifling to all but the simplest ideas. Don't Look Back never gets us [pat one man's faltering sales pitch. The unreconstructed reality of direct cinema can give us only those dialectic contradictions observable from a single perspective; for dialectic and analytic insight we must look elsewhere...
Step by Step. The 25-year-old system that the crawling peg would change is based on fixed exchange rates, under which currencies are valued in relation to the dollar and may range up or down by no more than 1% in foreign-exchange trading. Under the simplest form of crawling peg, if a currency were to sell for some months at the bottom of its 1% range, then its official value would automatically move down. On the other hand, if heavy demand were to make a currency sell persistently at the top of its range, its official value would...