Word: trickyness
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The Alaskan line cannot be built until Congress decides how to settle the ancient claims of the state's natives to public lands along the pipe route. While the Alaskan line would cross four active earthquake zones-posing the danger of breaks and consequent ecological damage-Canada's...
As part of the post-World War II drive for freer trade, the U.S. tariff on cast-resin billiard balls was progressively reduced from 50% in 1947 to 20% in 1963. Now the Belgian billiard-ball hustlers fear that they may be snookered out of their prime market. Albany Billiard...
ONE WRITER who has never indulged in this sort of bleary prose style is Frederick Buechner. In the twenty or so years during which he has been publishing novels, he has never turned one out in the sort of journalese which is so popular nowadays. If anything, his problem has...
Shepard should fit very well into Apollo 14's command seat. His ear now seems in excellent shape. "I still have a muted ringing in it, like a dog whistle," he says, "but I hardly notice it." He has also apparently mastered, in spite of initial difficulties, the split...
Merchant of Funk. San Francisco's ex-brokers seem to have fared best. Four alumni of Merrill Lynch switched early last year from stock trading to stock feeding, forming the Western States Cattle Co. Unlike the whole herd of amateurs who have lost their hides in the tricky cattle...