Word: suckers
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...create the danger of dependency? Well, what is that danger? It is twofold: a run-up of price and a cutoff of supply. True, our interest is in paying as little as possible for oil in the long run, not just today. Too low a price could be sucker bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow. It is impossible to say what price today minimizes the long-run cost of oil for consumers. What you can say for sure is that oil producers have exactly the opposite objective: maximum revenue...
...past, Saudi Arabia had been the one to stabilize OPEC's overall production level. As the so-called swing producer, the rich Saudis would cut back their output to offset the excess pumping of other members. In 1986 the Saudis got tired of playing the sucker and flooded the market with their unrivaled stores of crude, pushing prices down in an attempt to punish the cheaters and force them to play straight. That method proved of little value in taming Kuwait and the U.A.E., which have rich petroleum reserves and tend to favor lower prices as a way of discouraging...
...Bush is basically a decent man whose decency, unfortunately, is about an eighth of an inch thick; a man whose personal decency masks, rather than enhances, his public role; a good person, if there's no reason not to be, but a sucker for a Faustian bargain. He can be had cheap -- political convenience will certainly suffice. And that's not nice...
...R.N.C. He grills doctors for highly technical information about the nature of his disease and his treatment. At the same time, he is following editor Norman Cousins' prescription that laughter is the best medicine. Atwater has watched videotapes of the Three Stooges and W.C. Fields' film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Black humor also helps: he presented some friends with copies of his new album and a souvenir tuft of his hair, which has been falling out from radiation treatments...
...thing that he or she would come away from Jeschke's article with a very negative impression of Wellesley in general. This in itself is not fair. If an image is to be portrayed of us, at least let us do it ourselves, on our own terms. This article sucker-punched us. Jeschke should know that this is journalism at its worst. Margaret Lisi Wellesly College