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...fairly good impressionistic report of my speech. However two errors, one of sound, one of sense, crept in, all in one paragraph. I stated that more people were taking drugs out of boredom with what the society gives them. I cited the mass media as throwing shit from a barrel at them in the form of entertainment. As this statement came out in your paper it could be interrpreted [sic] as meaning all people us [sic] drugs out of boredom. It would not do to leave you with this low impression of drug users or drugs. All kinds of people...
...wealth of the Arab world glitters in Beirut, but the citadel of Arab finance is an undistinguished grey-walled building in Amman on the edge of the Jordan desert. It is the Arab Bank, the first as well as the largest Arab-owned bank. Its bluff, barrel-chested founder and chairman is Abdul Hameed Shoman, 75, a onetime haberdashery peddler who ranged the U.S. before returning home to open a bank dedicated as much to helping Arabs as it is to making profits. Shoman excels at making helping pay. Last week, as the Arab Bank released its 1962 report, everything...
Glaser claimed that people take drugs out of boredom. "There are people in the U.S. who are making money as entertainers by doing nothing but taking manure out of a barrel and throwing it at you.... Drugs don't make you smart, they don't necessarily make you happy, you can die from them, they cost. So what? They're there and they do something...
...Albert's troubles were not over. Even in a losing cause, 151 Republicans and 33 Democrats voted against the appropriation. On future spending issues, less politically touchy than the pork barrel, that number seemed likely to grow...
...little themselves that they scarcely have to worry about taxes. He pays some printers $58 for a 40-hour week (v. $149 for 35 hours in Manhattan), rarely tops $100 for seasoned editors. With monopolies in all but two of his eleven towns, he has most advertisers over a barrel...