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...bolt for me, won't you, dearie?" Sure, Arlene, if you'll ask your toy poodle to kindly stop crapping on my foot. It got so that I preferred the drunk who swung on the arm of Chief Kisco's statue and snapped it off. Or Jack, the 350-pound giant who lives in a flat over the bowling alleys...
...cluttered with the details of how many ships should go where. "It is very important to take the long view," he cautioned. "That has to be conveyed to everybody. I am not going to get bogged down in details. Look down the road. I want to pound that into the whole bureaucracy...
...battled their way into the capital, the fighting turned into a street-by-street encounter. Caught in the middle of the battle, Amman's 600,000 residents endured a week of agony. Most took refuge in their cellars, but many were buried alive when artillery began to pound the city. Quickly, electricity failed and the water supply was cut off. Though city dwellers were running out of food, Majali threatened that anyone found out of doors would be shot on sight. The few who ventured out found the streets cluttered with wrecked vehicles and littered with land mines...
Inflation has sent the cost of living soaring by nearly 5% since January. Beefsteak sells for $2 a pound, eggs 90? a dozen, cigarettes $1 a pack, and whisky $11 a fifth. Waiting lists for housing are years long. Taxes are sky-high and inching still higher; an across-the-board sales tax covering everything from food to services will rise by a third to a dizzying 16.5% next January. The once pristine countryside is being polluted, jobs are disappearing because of mechanization and there is a growing law-and-order problem...
...deafening; Belcher could not talk to the men at the next stations three feet away even if there were time. There never is. Partially assembled cars move past him at the rate of 62 an hour; in less than one minute he is expected to look over each auto, pound out a dent in a fender or reweld an improperly joined seam. Cars that cannot be fixed that quickly are taken off the line. In the winter, drafts from ill-caulked windows chill Belcher's chest, while hot air blasts from rust-proofing ovens 30 feet away singe...