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...trip to Europe are sure to reconsider. The Europeans do not seem seriously bothered by this possibility. France has clearly shown that it wants to limit U.S. investment. The West Germans and even the usually accommodating Dutch have already started making it more difficult for U.S. businessmen to thread through the red tape of setting up shop in their countries...
...transportation and lodging. There should be 400 of him. A one-man Peace Corps, he has replaced the ancient vices of the troubadours with glistening virtues. He is a lanky, 6-ft. 4-in., clean-cut, blue-jeaned, All-American youth tying the world together with a one-man thread...
David and Lisa is a tribute much more deeply touching: a story of two terrified children, lost in the deep black mine of the mind, who are found there by the means that Freud discovered and are led back to life by the bright red thread of love...
...military men and Government officials would collaborate in massive deception for partisan advantage. Many sources contributed to our account who cannot be acknowledged. The relationship was professional: no commitment was given by us as to how we would handle the news, nor were we asked for one. If a thread of knowledgeability is evident through our story-and we think it is-it comes from the interplay of authoritative sources and our own judgment...
...left home to get married, they took with them a compendium of mother's recipes which so dazzled her friends that they urged her to publish it privately. The experienced cooks received it with respect, and the beginners, to whom "basting" was something done with a needle and thread, were pathetically grateful. Bobbs-Merrill, equally impressed, brought it out publicly four years later. Since then, The Joy of Cooking has sold more than 6,000,000 copies to become the second largest-selling cookbook in the world* and as familiar a staple in the American kitchen as salt...