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...ways that helped Rowe pass his last year of imprisonment was to calculate the amount of back pay that the U.S. might owe him: he reached more than $30,000, then quit figuring. In fact, he was considerably short-changing himself because he assumed that he was still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe...
...this tense milieu that the Arabs' "men of sacrifice" operate, in a defiant effort to exploit its instabilities to their own ends. The fedayeen, who owe no fealty to any government, are responsible only to themselves, and view any settlement as a betrayal and a disaster. They possess the power to sting Israel into repeated reprisals, and perhaps to whip Arab popular opinion to such a pitch that not even Nasser with all his prestige might dare a settlement with Israel. In Jordan, their primary staging area, they constitute virtually a state-within-a-state and could probably topple...
...Technostructure-Rich owe their power mainly to their institutional positions in business, i.e., they can often make decisions that, as Galbraith demonstrated, cannot be overruled by their superiors within business or by any forces outside...
Though the fact is little understood outside the field of banking and professional economics, the peoples of the Western world owe their rising living standard in large part to the monetary system that now shows increasing signs of fragility. There are at least two separate, but related, troubles. The volume of world trade is rising far more quickly than the global supply of gold. To overcome that gap, the IMF last year devised a sort of "paper gold"-a new international money called "special drawing rights." Use of the SDKs, as they are called, awaits ratification by nations that contribute...
...Well is it mine? How can I know I owe you something if I don't get the bill..." Then I noticed something else. "Hey, why should this one have an original tax of $3.30 on it when the tax on the other cycle is only...