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...Take the FBI's recent sting operation when they caught Congressman Kelly of Florida with a bagload of money in the trunk of his car, and his explanation for this was that he was hoping to catch the person who gave it to him--I could not make that...
...Perry well knew, the Defense Secretary had already scheduled a press conference on Stealth two days later. The timing had been carefully worked out by Brown's press officer, Thomas Ross, to precede-and take some of the sting out of-release of a report about what had gone wrong with the aborted April mission to rescue the hostages in Iran...
...Board of Economists somberly concluded that this recovery would not bring any significant slacking of price hikes. Democrat Walter Heller from the University of Minnesota appeared to sum up the views of his colleagues on the board with a rhetorical question: "Recession, where is thy anti-inflationary sting?" Instead of halting the runaway rise in consumer prices, the decline seems merely to have kept the inflationary pressure bottled up and ready to escape at the first sign of renewed economic vigor...
...father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents. "I had to try to get good at football," he says, "because...
Whether the person is a veteran automobile worker or an inner-city black youth, unemployment takes a heavy psychological toll. Jerroll Kuerzi, 53, the father of eight, was an industrial engineer at the recently closed Ford Motor plant in Mahwah, N.J. He had already felt the sting of economic upset twice in his life: as a six-year-old during the Great Depression, when his parents were forced to sell the family home; and in the 1958 recession, when he lost both his job with International Harvester and his home in Indianapolis. In June, economic downturn tripped Kuerzi a third...