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...angst, plenty of angst. He knew he would be free soon, only to be trapped. All the tutors to see, sheepish explanations to be proffered, books he would have to skim, words he would have to write. More enemies than he had imagined. Brokaw blared, Pauley pouted. In Tehran, they shouted...
...from bases in North and South Dakota roar into the air. Later, while flying over North Pole ice sheets approximately 1,500 miles from their objectives, each bomber drops a deadly load of up to 20 cruise missiles. Like oversize model aircraft, these small unmanned jets skim at 500 m.p.h. only 50ft. above the ocean. Finally, hedgehopping their way under air defenses, the cruises' nuclear warheads explode in mushroom clouds on their targets, Soviet air and naval bases near Murmansk and Archangel...
Carter's tax is intended to skim off much of the increased revenues that the companies have been earning from the decontrol of domestic crude oil prices. But how big a tax, and for how long, have been major areas of congressional dispute. A joint congressional conference committee headed by Louisiana Senator Russell Long and Oregon Congressman Al Ullman finally agreed on the size. In a sharp horse-trade, they split the difference between a House-passed bill that might have yielded $277 billion over the next ten years and a Senate version that might have produced about...
...event so important to Thompson's career--is a major fault of this book. It reads too much like an expanded news article. The short sentences and paragraphs of the journalistic style make for quick reading, but they also give the impression that Hartley does little more than skim the surface of Thompson's career and character...
...this production makes little of either costumes or stage, save for one fine touch by lighting designer Marshall Thomsen. He projects a "gobo on the skim" which, in layman's language means inserting a metal cut-out in the theatrical light and shining it on a muslin drape. The effect is a jagged, broken silhouette that mirrors the fragmented hopes of the protagonists...