Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which allows him to wheel and deal in all phases of the market. But there have been frightening lurches along the way. "Three tunes I've lost massive amounts of money," admits Cahnman, who is married to a schoolteacher and has no children. "Once I thought I was so far down the tubes that I thought I wouldn't even get out with my house...
...played pretty well up until now. Then Brother Billy thought he would enlarge the script. First came an interview in Penthouse magazine in which the barefooted Billy called Charles Kirbo, the President's adviser, "about the dumbest bastard I ever met in my life" and labeled Hamilton Jordan, the top White House staff member, an "asshole." Some thought that Billy, who now makes about $300,000 a year by performing in public as the President's brother, crossed the line from being a plain, greedy slob into being an embarrassment to the presidency. Then last week came...
Some investigators believe that these prospects could have led to Paisley's suicide, or his disappearance. If so, the implications are tantalizing. Could Paisley have been a mole who thought he was about to be exposed? Was he murdered or spirited away by Soviet agents before he could be unmasked? That would not have been difficult: the Soviet embassy has an estate on the Corsica River, from which its large speedboats could easily reach Paisley's known cruising point near Hooper Island lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay. On the other hand, did the CIA arrange his murder...
...easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case...
...Thought you wouldn't have to see me until the leaves turn green, huh? Well, you're out of luck, as I have been summoned from the land of number 2 pencils a semester early this year to make the road to clinical depression a little swifter...