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...settlers still dominate the country's business and educational elite-as did scions of the freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven years later, Stevens took power after a revolt led by low-ranking soldiers. That power grab bore a certain resemblance to the army-led coup in Liberia, headed by Master Sergeant Samuel Doe, that ousted the long-entrenched Tolbert regime...
...Holmes for a direct confrontation. The ring apron is only 18 inches wide; Ali is awkward in his attempts to draw nearer to his ex-sparring partner. He continues to shout, but the words are slurred. Brain damage, a British physician has speculated. Ali almost slips and has to grab the top tope of the ring. He frowns. He knows ten million television watchers have seen him lose his balance. Ten million anonymous television viewers...
...round the world to Brother Lamar's Rolex watch and even Hunt family office equipment, cattle feeders and watercoolers, nothing escaped the attentive and appraising eye of the bankers. Explained one banker in the style of his trade: "When you've got someone over a barrel, you grab everything...
...addition to the money for synfuels, which will be administered in large part by a Synthetic Fuels Corporation reminiscent of the Energy Security Corporation that Carter had initially proposed, the bill also contains a nearly $6 billion grab bag of energy odds and ends. Included are $3 billion for various solar and conservation programs over the next three to four years, $850 million in subsidies to spur the commercial production of ethanol, which can be mixed with gasoline to make gasohol and $600 million for biomass energy, such as that derived from turning municipal garbage into fuel. Finally, the bill...
...thinks that contemporary domestic life would be improved if chains and manacles were put back in the home, where they belong: "When father came in from work, the whole family could grab him and chain him for being stupid enough to be working all day long to support them...