Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...smugglers are well organized and lavishly financed. "They are better equipped than we are," says Jack Redford of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. "It's hard to beat the cash flow they have. When you rip off 75 tons and don't cripple the group financially, you begin to realize how much money there is in it." Redford and other officials expect the pot smuggling activity to continue increasing in the Gulf Coast area. He adds with a grin: "But we hope to pass it on to Texas...
Democrat Heller cautioned, however, that Volcker is not likely to repeat his move of last spring and begin excessively increasing the money supply a second time if the economy starts to falter. Said Heller: "Volcker has had a burning experience, and he is now being driven almost by a sense of inner guilt. He eased up too much too soon, and he knows it. Now Volcker may be overcompensating...
...think of Leonid Brezhnev as anything like "Bud" or "Red" is out of the question, as is Whizzer Begin or Buck Khomeini...
...metronomic beat begins. The alarm clocks-one square, one frilly, one sensibly round-start ringing. Kiss the kids goodbye. Stop for a red light. 7:55. A city full of female legs: walking, running, bicycling, escalatoring. Hands hail a cab, finger a watch, exchange coins for coffee. The coffee spills on her new pumps. 8:50. Speed-read the morning paper, run for the elevator, just miss it. One pert, frazzled woman checks a scrawled address, enters the anonymous skyscraper, ascends to her new job. The elevator doors open, then begin to close. She realizes that this is her floor...
...American tendency to unchecked garrulity is most conspicuous in the realm of TV sports, but it does not begin or end there by a long shout. The late-evening TV news, for example, is aclutter with immaterial chatter. "Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk . . ." Rodgers and Hammerstein offered that lyrical advice to young lovers, but a great many TV news staffers have adopted it as an inviolable rule of tongue. Happy talk is not reprehensible, but should it be force-fed to an audience looking for the news? Surely not, no more than a sports fancier tuning in football...