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Everyone knows Yalies are by nature vicious and underhanded. But put them in a hockey game without good refs. and they can really get out of hand...
...started for a minute, swallowing the grin all at once--no easy feat. Just then Harvard's Mark Fusco ripped a vicious slap shot from the point by a bewildered Demetroulakas. Home 3, visitors 0. Mumbling something about finding some popcorn to go with his pride, he pardoned and excused himself all the way to the aisle, disappearing into the crowd...
...Viennese witch doctor). He hated Thomas Mann. And most interesting of all, he hated Dostoevsky. Nabokov is at his most provocative when he ranks the great Russians. Most of his own emotions, it seems, were poured into his worshipping of Tolstoy, on the one hand, and his vicious debunking of Dostoevsky, on the other. The final ranking is, officially: 1. Tolstoy; 2. Gogol; 3. Chekhov; 4. Turgenev. Dostoevsky is dead last. Nabokov accuses him of sloppy and melodramatic Christianity, reactionary slavophilism (which Nabokov links with both Fascism and Communism), lack of artistic sense or taste, and a hackneyed, long-winded...
When Poland was forced to reduce its borrowing, the country began to suffer from a lack of spare parts for the spanking new equipment already in place. Round and round the vicious circle spun. The nation's factories operated in 1981 at only 60% of capacity. To make matters worse, poor harvests from 1974 to 1980 ravaged the country's agriculture, which Gierek had foolishly ignored in favor of industrial development, despite the fact that agriculture accounts for 20% of Poland's domestic gross national product. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of supplies and equipment went to the inefficient state farms...
Bulging inventories frighten economists because the stockpiles have the unavoidable effect of creating a vicious circle of economic decline. As unsold goods build up, businessmen are forced to pare back production and lay off workers, and this in turn drives up unemployment, which currently stands at 8.4% of the labor force. As jobless lines lengthen, consumer spending shrinks, and this in turn causes inventories of unsold goods to grow even more. Said Alan Greenspan of the Townsend-Greenspan economic consulting firm: "Involuntary inventory accumulation by business will be an absolutely critical piece of evidence in gauging the severity...