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...sheer size of the military budget, the risks and uncertainties associated with continuing military operations must be taken into account. These factors will unquestionably affect the rates of return that investors, domestic or foreign will require; the total may consequently be limited or investors will be induced to temper their economic decisions heavily by considerations of security...
...Mafia family whose patriarch, Joseph Profaci, provided Novelist Mario Puzo with a model for the "Godfather." Still, the strain of serving the old while being conditioned by the new showed in obvious and dramatic ways. Young Bill, reports Talese, had an ulcer at 15. As he grew up, his temper became shorter and more violent. At college, he beat up a jockey who dated his girl...
...president hinted that he might temper Harvard's traditional caution toward undergraduate education in the arts, especially the performing arts. "The prospect of more leisure time suggests a need to re-examine how the College can best cultivate a talent for the arts, both as participant and observer," Bok said...
Yemen's Major General Hassan Amri had long been noted for his sulfurous temper, and his desk-pounding rages frequently sent aides fleeing from his office in terror. But despite his reputation for hotheadedness, the gruff general, 48, had managed to become Premier of the primitive Arab nation no fewer than seven times since 1962, when nationalist forces supported by Egyptian troops overthrew the conservative Moslem imamate.* Now, however, Amri's temper has apparently cost a young Yemeni shopkeeper his life and Amri his job as Premier and commander in chief of the armed forces. It is unlikely...
...Flash of Temper. Amri's army friends succeeded in having him exiled instead, and a few days later the general turned up in Beirut with his twelve-year-old son. Sources who have seen him say that he seems subdued and regretful. But the old temper still flashes, and he was about to smash a Beirut photographer's camera at the mountain resort where he is staying when the Yemeni ambassador stepped in and cooled...