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...some extent, Unruh has always been a victim of caricature. He is remembered for two harsh dicta from his assembly days: "Money is the mother's milk of politics," and, speaking of lobbyists: "If you can't take their money, drink their booze, screw their women and look them in the eye and vote against them, you don't belong here." But he was never entirely the Mr. Hyde that his enemies like to imagine. By his driving force he overhauled the ramshackle, lobbyist-dominated state legislature to make it one of the nation's best...
...special franglais, Tiffeau laments: "One day he love you and the next day he hate you." Tiffeau offers his analysis of WWD's success: "They survive because they are alone in a business and because we are at a time when people are demanding a dirty newspaper like Screw or Rat, and they are the Seventh Avenue equivalent of those magazines. They are not putting a nude picture on the front page but they should, and that's where they don't go far enough." For good measure, Tiffeau adds that Fairchild has "the power of the devil...
Crisis of Costs. For their part, the companies complain that absenteeism runs as high as 10% on Mondays and Fridays and 15% the day after payday. Sabotage-paint scraped with screw drivers, upholstery slashed-is common. Numerous defects have roused consumer complaints about quality control. Automen complain that hourly pay and benefits have increased nearly three times as much as productivity since 1965. The resulting increase in the price of U.S. cars makes Detroit increasingly vulnerable to foreign competition, which now accounts for 13% of the U.S. market. As long ago as last February, G.M. Chairman James Roche...
NASA insists that the economies will not bring new dangers. Kennedy Space Center Director Kurt Debus says that only one case of sloppy workmanship attributable to morale has come to his attention: having accidentally snapped a screw on a key spacecraft section, a workman glued the other half into place. He feared that he might be laid off if his company-a private contractor -had to go to the time and expense of drilling out the screw...
...screw em !" Spider said, and the three turned around to rejoin their three chicks, who were waiting at the gate. Anyway, it was time to head for Rindge. Jocy and his gang from New Quincy was supposed to show carly, too. And that meant Big Will would be there. Flex and his crowd were from old Quincy...