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Bill decided that the simplest and safest way to keep more of his earnings was to pocket most of the money made from the coin-operated pool and football tables that stand alongside his bar. They provide him about $8,000 a year, free and clear. Bill's self-serving rationale: "I risked everything I had to start this business, and now that the gamble has paid off, the government is benefiting almost as much as I do-so that it can give money to welfare people, or to foreign governments that have no intention of paying it back...
...data than eight floppy discs and can be thumbed with wet or sticky hands. Mastering data-base software can also be a taxing task, especially for the neophyte. Most data-base programs are marketed for business use; they come with powerful features and inch-thick manuals. Even with the simplest software, designing an efficient data base for an odd personal need is an art that often requires hours of trial and error. Advises PFS's Gibbons: "You have to ask yourself, 'How many times am I going to access this information and in how many ways?' " Gibbons...
...allusions, grand metaphors and other wordplay, Safire at his giddiest can let his love of sound undermine his efforts to make sense. An example: "Thus one who lobbies expertly for the rights of female derelicts might be called a shopping-bag-lady knifethrower." He is usually most effective when simplest, writing blunt, mock-macho prose. Recounting in January the confession of a former Communist "mole," American Aristocrat Michael Straight, Safire cracked, "How delicious it must have been for a Red under the bed to deride Joe McCarthy for looking for Reds under the bed." In a column labeled "The Midterm...
...quarter-century.* From the President's anger over the siege of Beirut last summer to Begin's curt rejection of Reagan's peace plan to the stalemate over the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, everything has seemed to conspire to heighten tensions and deepen distrust. Perhaps the simplest and most basic example: the more President Reagan expressed his disapproval of new settlements in the West Bank, the faster the Israelis built them. Says a senior Administration official: "There is questioning on high as to whether we and the Israelis really do share fundamental goals in the Middle East...
Paul McCartney: Tug Of War (Columbia). He is still rock's supreme balladeer, and Here Today is the simplest and best memorial to John Lennon anyone has written...