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...device of under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports; the excess amounts were then deposited in bank accounts abroad. But when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood of lire. In an attempt to crack down on foreign accounts, Guardia officials were reportedly posted outside Swiss banks to take down the license numbers of Italian motorists making deposits...
...thanking staffers for their 18-hour days, and a harsh streak occasionally surfaces. When Hubert Humphrey was thinking of jumping into the primaries, Carter said that the Senator, then 64, was too old to be President, and, besides, he was a "loser." Later Carter apologized for that tasteless crack...
...Army. Inspiring war novels, after all, provide the Soviets with some of their favorite reading. Voinovich not only understands this official objection but impishly uses his critics to further his heresy. "Couldn't the author have taken a military hero from real life, a tall, well-built, disciplined, crack student of military and political theory?" he writes early in the novel. "I could have, but I was too late. All the crack students had already been grabbed up and I was left with Chonkin...
Boraine, a member of the anti-apartheid Progressive Reform Party, said that the government has issued threats over the last few months that unless the press performed more self-censorship, the regime would crack down on all newspapers...
Then, when the mood prevailed, Desaulniers would think of some way to hit a crack or make the ball pull up lame. Basically, it's a question of whether or not you'd go for the A in a pass-fail course, because for Desaulniers, these matches are not challenges...