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...name were an individual's, that would sound like the sort of marker a winning gambler might pick up in some fantastic, high-stakes crap game. In fact, it is a similar form of IOU-a sample of the unsecured and loosely regulated kind of corporate credit known as commercial paper. Until the collapse of the Penn Central, commercial paper was the nation's fastest-growing type of credit, but now it has become a prime source of financial worry. By issuing commercial paper, U.S. corporations have saddled themselves with an enormous burden of short-term debt that...
...formed a lasting grudge against the unfeeling. To this day he remembers learning in terms of combat. "In grammar school you fight for your life and try not to get the crap beat out of you after school," he recalls. "In high school you figure things are frozen forever in a certain pattern; there are a couple of guys you can beat up and a lot who can beat you up, and there are a few girls who'll go out with you and some more that won't, and that's the way the rest of life will...
...when the boy was twelve. There was hardly any cash; the brilliant, aggressive student subsisted on scholarships and formed a lasting grudge against the unfeeling. To this day he remembers learning in terms of combat. "In grammar school you fight for your life and try not to get the crap beat out of you after school," he recalls. "In high school you figure things are frozen forever in a certain pattern; there are a couple of guys you can beat up and a lot who can beat you up, and there are a few girls who'll go out with...
...them who saw me had lost a son in Viet Nam and he told me, 'Mr. President, if you'd gone in sooner and captured that ammunition, you might have gotten the bullet that killed my boy.' So don't anyone give me any crap about not seeing hardhats...
...southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker to concrete bunker, hidden under the thick jungle canopy. The "floating crap game," as COSVN is known in Saigon, is often widely dispersed. As they searched for it, the troops found elaborate underground bunkers almost everywhere they turned: plucking a pineapple from the ground at an innocent-looking farm in the Fishhook, an astonished G.I. discovered that he had opened the disguised door...