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...President is an opportunist who fears taking risks and waffles until the game is nearly over and a winner is emerging. At that moment, Costa Gomes marches to the front and takes control. So far, it has proved to be a successful strategy, but of course, sometimes even corks sink...
...react by putting its own economies "in irons"?that is, dictatorially regulating all production, consumption and investment. U.S. Economist Milton Friedman, a disciple of Adam Smith, darkly suspects that capitalist freedom will turn out to be "an accident" in the long sweep of history, and that humanity will sink back into its "natural state" of "tyranny and misery...
...private distributors are successful, the Postal Service will sink into much deeper trouble. The private carriers would take away business in cities and suburbs, where high volume makes it easier to turn a profit, and leave to the Postal Service the rural, low-population areas, which are gross money losers. The prospect would be a never-ending spiral of higher rates, lower volume and deteriorating service. As rates went up, more customers would flee, and rates would have to go up again...
...today's marine scientists theorize. Sharks are condemned by nature to a life without sleep or even rest. The reason is that they lack the swim bladders of the bony fishes, which permit the latter to float when they need to. A shark must literally swim or sink. If you wanted to anthropomorphize the beast, you could account for its wretched disposition by that fact alone...
...money creates problems. About 35,000 checks a year get stolen. And the amount of clerical work is overwhelming. Says Treasury Official Les Plumly: "We have to print them, stuff them, seal them and mail them. If we don't find some other way, the sheer volume will sink the system...