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Some applications are denied very quickly, and a select few are almost instant admits. Still others receive hours of painstaking attention, but roughly half of the stack gets no farther than Geraghty's first reading. An application must receive at least two favorable readings before the office extends an offer of admission; when the initial readers disagree, the application goes before a larger panel...
...billion deficit projected for 1989 is so large, the candidate said, that a stack of $1 bills in that amount would reach halfway to the moon. The Federal Government, he went on, needs to borrow $500 million today just to get through tomorrow. The simple, vivid images were right out of Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign repertoire, but now the speaker was Walter Mondale. All week long the Democrat pounded away at the budget deficits ("a trap door under our economy") and at the President's denial that tax increases are inevitable. And all week long the Reagan...
...scheme began unraveling in February. Tipped off by the American Stock Exchange about trading irregularities, the SEC began questioning Clark and Brant. At one point, Brant showed up at Clark's law office in a "state of high emotional excitement," according to Clark. He was brandishing a thick stack of $100 bills and said he wanted to "flee the jurisdiction" by going to Brazil. Although the two visited the Brazilian consulate, the trip was never made...
...even balance of social and academic activities or a lively social center?" I asked for two roommates and got five. My compromise in the cleanliness category meant a floor littered with old newspapers and a pizza that sat in a corner all year next to a foot-high stack of records out of their jackets. If we had not been disorderly in such a creative way, maybe we would have had room for a lively social center...
...still in the same chair. He had a way of sitting on the small of his back, and that was how he was sitting now. The gray light of morning filled the room. There was the smell of a fire that had died. On a table lay a stack of books?the memoirs of Presidents. In each, he had inserted a slip of paper, marking a place where he had found something of interest. That is how Nixon had spent his last night as President. He had been seeking solace from the only men who could truly know what...