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...grain deal of 1972, the Russians bought large quantities of U.S. wheat and corn at a time when American farmers were already fairly scraping their silos to meet heavy domestic and foreign demand. Prices of some grains more than doubled as a result, giving a sharp upward kick to inflation. Even more annoying was the fact that, because U.S. officials were not aware of the big Soviet purchases, the grain was sold under a Government subsidy program, which meant that U.S. taxpayers paid for much of the Russian grain bought in the U.S. To avoid a replay of that fiasco...
...bartender, say, "Two double Scotches for C" instead of shouting the word craps. Every effort is made to dispel the rowdy, green eyeshade image of gambling. New croupiers are taught the "theory of craps," while Twenty-One dealers are told to slap their hands and hold them upward when they leave their posts to show that they are not concealing any chips. Department heads are required to write daily reports on customer complaints and answer them by letter or telephone. Other supervisory personnel, meanwhile, prepare nightly lists of high rollers in the house...
Since then, the story of The Post has been one of a steady upward climb in respectability and circulation, and in 1959, it surpassed The Washington Star in advertising and circulation figures, to be Washington's leading paper. The struggle to overtake The New York Times in national reporting has been more difficult, though, and only in the past ten years or so has The Post had the resources necessary for such an effort...
...moment Tony Catanzaro's Lazarus emerged from the yellow light of the tomb, crouched like some deformed insect, the struggle of form against space and life against death riveted the audience. Catanzaro used his considerable physical power to convey an intense emotional compression, and as the dance toiled upward from the ground he grappled with space as though the very air around him were thick with death...
...city still has what one teacher describes, in a reference to traditional ethnic regard for education as the door to upward mobility, as "enough of a foreign element to insist on good education." The school on the hill is the pride of the community...