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...Ritterman: "There's much more depth here than in a regular bookstore -- authors you can't find elsewhere." Owner Otto Penzler concedes that he does not do smash business with best sellers by the likes of Robert Parker or Robert Ludlum. "B. Dalton," he says, "has them in the window at 30% off. I can't do that...
...motive for these mountainous excavations: gold. In 1961 Livermore, then working for the Newmont Mining Corp., made a seminal discovery. He looked for gold in the "windows" of a geological feature known as the Carlin Trend. Windows occur where obscuring layers of rock, displaced by an uplift, have eroded to expose the rock below. When Livermore cut into a window on the Carlin Trend, he hit what nongeologists took to calling invisible gold...
...great transcontinental Canadian, which for decades gave its adventurous passengers a window on the grandeur of Canada, is consigned to the shed...
Losing the Canadian is a sad sacrifice to the bottom line. It is a steel bond linking towns that nobody would otherwise visit with cities that nobody would otherwise leave. During the summer months, 3 out of 4 Canadian passengers are foreigners, seeking perhaps a window on a country. The rest of the travelers are natives, many of whom are seeing the land across the mountains for the first time...
...other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Bradley gloomily predicted that "the llama farmers, along with all the other dealmakers and tax-shelter merchants who had shut up shop, will put the OPEN FOR BUSINESS sign back in the window...