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...staff. Even after rent and salaries, however, an oldtimer like Stalmaster can make about $150,000 a year. That is enough to have attracted several dozen highly charged, highly competitive people to the job of caster. With a few exceptions, none of them is secure, and almost on a whim a producer can dump an old hand...
...manipulate the rules in order to gain political advantage, changing the way the game was played in midstream. The precedent deeply disturbed me. I wondered if the change would inch us back toward a system that allowed individual delegates to hold the presidential nomination captive to personal whim...
Lisa Newman, a psychiatric social worker in Toronto, thinks that some survivors have not been able to pass on a coherent value system to their children, because their ordeal under the Nazis was so absurd. "People survived, not for anything they did, but only because of someone's whim. That undermines your faith in your own actions having a sensible outcome, or a sense of a universe that...
...estimated that there are 150 to 200 small groups...It is difficult to keep a record of the persons in the groups inasmuch as the women frequently switch according to possible changes in address, workplace, movement affiliation, marital status, ideological anaysis, or whim...
...Soviet campaign," being "outright hypocritical" and telling "mountains of lies" about the Soviet action in Afghanistan. Said the Kremlin's aging chief: "The impression is increasingly forming in the world of the U.S. as an absolutely unreliable partner in interstate ties, as a state whose leadership, prompted by some whim, caprice or emotional outbursts ... is capable at any moment of violating its international obligations...