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...useless," or "Even a monkey could be trained to do this" when he's digging in a hole as dismal as that one; but after sand, struggle and serendipity, when life gets reduced to ciggs, sake, and sex, the sensations are powerfully communicated to the audience: you taste that drag, you smell that swig, you ... like the feelies in Brave New World...
Sartori, who is a professor at the University of Florence, went on th summarize Italy's foreign policy. "The general trend in Italy on these matters is just to drag along," he said. "I don't think that at his moment we have any foreign policy at all." Sartori attributed this to the impossibility of acheiving a concensus between the Italian left and right wings...
...John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into strained relation. I like to drag and break the intonation across the metre as waves first comb and then break stumbling on the shingle. That's all but it's not mere figure of speech...
...speculators who sold short in the hope that the pound would be devalued and they could later buy it back at depressed prices. The rise meant that the British rate would be twice as high as the 31% U.S. rate, and, as one Swiss banker put it, "7% would drag money from the moon." The Federal Reserve and the Treasury were concerned that it might pull too many...
...these distractions, the family's control of the business has been remarkably enlightened. Even the critics of its nepotism concede that the family shunts its mediocre members into powerless "drag" jobs. The Du Ponts motivate their hired managers to fierce loyalty by giving them uncommon amounts of power and money. To achieve the outlook and flexibility of a small company, they have broken up their firm into a dozen operating departments that are only loosely supervised from above. A department general manager is like a captain on a ship, free to chart his own course so long...