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...Joan polished off another plate of turkey swimming in gravy, a pan of stuffing, an entire pecan pie, a gallon of ice cream, and a gallon of milk. Then, cursing her bloated body and lack of will-power, Joan locked herself in the bathroom and vomited up every last bite of her meal...
There may be a better way to a whiter bite without drilling...
...planners also point out that people can lessen the bite of the Internal Revenue Service by making deductible expenditures originally planned for 1982 in the remaining weeks of 1981. This enables the taxpayer to get more value for his deductions before the tax rates drop. Most accountants, for example, advise their clients to prepay local property and state taxes and medical expenses. Stephen Sandler, the owner of a collection agency in Phoenix, bought a new company car early. Said he: "It was a choice of whether to pay the money to Uncle Sam or put it back into the corporation...
...last concession: a free neck tie, for example, to go with a couple of suits. There is a wonderfully grasping vulgarity in the ploy, an effrontery that should be greeted with admiration, at least in a clothing store. Sometimes the nibble can be immense and sinister-like the bite that Hitler took at Munich. In less apocalyptic negotiations, the nibble should generally be greeted with dignified amusement. If conflict is the natural state of the world, then negotiation may be an unnatural medium, one that goes against the centrifugal force of things. On the other hand, almost every human transaction...
...such occasional epiphanies, it all too often thrusts the analyst herself into the biography and we see the actual process of analysis. In the course of a treatment of Odets's private diaries, for instance, we are told that one entry "stops the biographer in her tracks with its bite and prescience, until she deduces it was written long after the fact...