Word: profession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company won't release figures, but it claims the tapes are selling well, mostly through catalogs. Meanwhile, pet shop owners profess unconcern. Says one Manhattan doggie vendor: "The next thing you know they'll come out with video husbands and wives...
...performance, then going home at night to write "these real melodic, pretty songs." The fact that he finally has those songs out on record still does not entirely dispel confusion over what kind of music this is. Ask Jarvis about a jazzman like, say, Keith Jarrett, and he will profess great admiration, then add, "I feel closer to Floyd Cramer...
...some of those have a slightly greedy tone, the reason is that New Age fantasies often intersect with mainstream materialism, the very thing that many New Age believers profess to scorn. A surprising number of successful stockbrokers consult astrological charts; a yuppie investment banker who earns $100,000 a year talks of her previous life as a monk. Some millionaires have their own private gurus who pay house calls to provide comfort and advice. Big corporations too are paying attention. "The principle here is to look at the mind, body, heart and spirit," says a corporate spokesperson, who asks that...
...Soviets have no intention of relinquishing their claims to the sub, but neither do they plan to salvage it, according to Igor Bulay, press attache at the Soviet embassy in Washington. Nor does the U.S. Navy publicly profess any interest in the sub, noting that it was an older model and that the Soviets had ample time to strip it of encrypting devices. Under international law, the Navy says, the wreck belongs to the Soviets unless they expressly abandon it. Then again, the Navy is not likely to say otherwise, even if another salvage operation is in the offing...
...just wrong but dangerous to underestimate the rationality of regimes that profess the craziest of ends. The very designation "crazy state" inclines those sure of their own sanity to let down their guard. Europe catastrophically underestimated Hitler because he was plainly a madman. That he was. It did not prevent him from conquering Europe...