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...flight crews. With nearly 350 daily flights canceled, the lockout is costing the airlines a combined $1.8 million daily in operating losses. The flight crews have not found much sympathy from either public or press. Commented Le Monde: "The pilots have an excellent image. Do they have to spoil it through an excess of greed?" What most bothers French aviation men is the possibility that a prolonged suspension will eat up reserves earmarked for such new purchases as the Boeing 747 and the Franco-British Concorde...
...time, Wilson had grandiose visions: "Chains of A.A. hospitals and tons of free literature for suffering alkies." But when he sought millions from John D. Rockefeller Jr., the philanthropist astutely replied: "I think money will spoil this." As a result, A.A. was financed by its own members. In dealing with each other or the public, they used only their first names and initials. "Identification leads to power drives," Wilson explained. "The thought of power is one reason we were drunks in the first place...
...within the trade. Established astrologers like Carroll Righter, who built reputations and fortunes on a 12-sign system, dismiss Schmidt's theories as "meaningless." U.S.C. Astronomy Professor Gibson Reaves points out that "astrology is essentially irrational, and to try to give it such a rational, scientific explanation would spoil it for most people, anyway." Buffs like Clark Stillman, salesman at a Greenwich Village occult bookstore, complain that Schmidt doesn't ascribe any "elements" (air, water, fire, etc.) to his new signs or enhance them "for esoteric value" with much mythology. Actually, Schmidt borrows some myths from the Encyclopaedia...
...veto the suggestion because they think the girls' bedrooms are too small and too messy for entertaining. They may easily point out how unfitting it would be for girls in curlers and wrappers to wander around the corridors of an open house. Further, some girls may object that men spoil the peace and quiet...
...Spare the rod and spoil the child" is truer today than ever before. We've been so afraid of psychological damage to our children from discipline enforcement that we've ended up with a sick young society. Back to the paddle, people. Junior's better off with a blistered butt than needle marks...