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Measured against such a timeless classic, then, Irangate definitely rates as a grade B remake. Ronald Reagan, who for years has specialized as a bumbling Jerry Lewis type--witness his classic, What Disinformation Campaign?--simply does not exhibit the kind of depth necessary for the role of a mischievous villain...
Writers anxious to improve the quality of their prose and arguments should retype major drafts from a print-out. What? Is the Happy Hacker denouncing the key virtue of a word (once-its-there-you-never-have-to-type-it-again) processor? Not really. Rather, the Hacker is suggesting that by occasionally retyping a paper from scratch, the writer is forced to reconsider every word and sentence in a much more active way than simply by dragging a cursor across...
...Instead you'd rather eat torts, eh? I know your type," says the Other waving the ladle at his companion. "Have a little faith! Remember Shaw said: `Where there's danger, there's hope.' I don't know what he meant by it, but he wasn't a lawyer, that's for sure...
...avoid dependency on Soviet nuclear-fuel supplies. Indian officials took a cautious line on a Soviet offer to provide military equipment to counter any Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft that Pakistan might acquire from the U.S. They indicated that they would decide after it becomes clear what type of system Pakistan obtains...
Smith did, however, fire back a few potshots at his boardroom critic. Perot "wants nothing better than the best for GM," Smith said, adding that "he is a different type of guy than we are in GM. He is impatient. I think part of it is just his natural inclination. Part of it, of course, is (that he is) not very familiar in total with our business." As for charges that GM gives its executives excessive perks, Smith retorted that Perot's office at EDS in Dallas "makes mine look like shantytown. He has a Gilbert Stuart painting hanging...