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...sultry tropical night (the temperature was 86° and the humidity about 90%), Foreman's punches soon lost power. Arm weary, he began to swing wildly, frequently missing entirely, spinning around on his own momentum like a worn-out drunk. Ali took advantage of Foreman's slack defense by springing off the ropes time after time to jolt the bone-tired champ with lightning combinations to the head...
...hope that Mr. Ferrara will see fit to pen another article dealing with the number of deportees to Mexico, especially during slack agricultural months, since the abolition of the bercero programs ten years ago. Additionally, he should address himself to the question of the union hall vs. the labor contractor system of providing farm labor. Half truths and omissions are far worse than complete untruths...
...capital necessary for Britain--an island that cannot live without imports--to finance its balance of payments deficit. American banks recently announced, jointly, that they felt they were fully "loaned out" to Britain, France and Italy. Other international monetary powers may be willing to take up some of the slack for a short while, but a real financing of Britain's 6 billion pound annual deficit could only come from the Arabs, and those ultra-security-conscious investors are hardly likely to invest very heavily in a country whose economic future must seem so unsettling to the capitalist...
...brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that ate up $400 million of the Ford Foundation's purchasing power in 1973 or be prepared to pick up the slack if the foundation cuts back or goes under...
...corn," and to "kernel," of which "cornel" is a disused form. Has the butterfly been caught? Not necessarily. It should not be overlooked that "kern" in its old Celtic sense means "a band of foot soldiers," which suggests "infantry," which (by a leap of sound past sense) suggests "infants": slack freshman faces staring in sweet stupefaction as an exiled genius speaks subtly of Lermontov. Snagged in the net, this dubious flutterer is obviously fake or freak. No matter. Pin it to the board and name it after poor old VadimVadimych...