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...Management Consultant Robert Bramson's nosology of office malcontents and combatants [March 17], I add the memo writers, a species especially pesky to bosses. The memo is such a potent weapon. It gets under the skin and demands attention. I should know. My boss replied with a pink slip...
...Their buying helped drive up prices from $6 per oz. in early 1979 to $50 two months ago. The Hunt group then seemingly borrowed against its silver profits to buy other commodities and stocks. But the $50 price of silver could not be sustained, and when it began to slip the whole pyramid began to tumble...
Harvard supergoalie John Lechner, having lapsed momentarily to mere mortality in the middle of the game, once again rose to the occasion and dug out the exploding grounders and whizzing bullets the Quakers tried to slip...
...that left, by official count, 53 dead, with unofficial estimates running well over 100. The heaviest confrontation took place at the national university, where four leftist organizations have their headquarters. The soldiers did not invade the sprawling campus, which is off limits to government forces, but ultra-rightists did slip onto the campus at night to plant small bombs and rake buildings with machine-gun fire...
Seeking tranquillity? Slip into a watery coffin...