Г) Busted by Invitation
Dope smokers the world over seem to be welcoming the tendency of many police forces to turn a blind eye to what the law is beginning to see as a fairly harmless habit. However, even the police can only lighten up so much. Two officers arrived at a house in Massachusetts after someone accidentally dialed 911 and then hung up. After being invited into the house, the officers were surprised to find marijuana being smoked. They were going to let it pass until the lady of the house proudly showed them a huge store of the stuff in the kitchen. The woman and her husband were a little taken aback to find themselves in court on charges of cultivating and supplying marijuana. (From The Best Book of Bizarre But True Stories by Mike Flynn)
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A) Dear Sirs,
By now you will have received our new price-list giving details of the reduction inprices for all our Dry Batteries, which came into effect on January, 1st.
Similar reductions were made in other markets and the result has so
greatly exceeded our expectations that our stocks are rapidly diminishing. While
we are producing at full speed we may be unable to pace with the exceptional
demand, and a slight delay in dispatch may soon become unavoidable.
You have probably intended to reorder shortly; if we are right in thinking
this, we would ensure immediate dispatch from stock.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Kimland
Sales Manager
Б) Insecurity Haunts North African Regimes South-Med Hopes
Southern Mediterranean states hope to exploit their growing internal security concerns as a means of intensifying pressure on the European Union to cement inter-regional ties during the Barcelona summit.
Among North African states there is growing insistence that the EU should respond more positively to demands for resources which would bolster the incumbent governments of the region in the face of insecurity they portray as threatening to Europe.
The EU aid package for Mediterranean states, amounting to 4 billion pounds, announced at the Cannes summit in June, is regarded by the beneficiaries as little more as a token gesture. North-African states will use the Barcelona meeting to emphasize the link between political insecurity and a lack of investment. Smail Benamara, Algerian councilor for foreign affairs says: "It's necessary to give much more money than that provided at Cannes. There cannot be stability and security without the settling of the social questions."
B) The gold paper was stamped with a pattern of ridges and spines, a
miniature nautilus wrapped around dark imported chocolate. Unlike cheap
candy that clawed and irritated, this confection slipped down the throat and
satisfied.
The gold paper was subtly textured and, like fine damask, when angled just so to the light, it revealed secret designs - diamonds - iridescent and intermittent. Opened flat, the foil was about a three-inch square. It never failed to amaze Fei Lo how boxes and bags could be knocked down to a flat piece of
hard paper with notches and missing comers. But the spines that formed this shell design could not be flattened. They were hot-stamped into the paper almost permanently giving the wrapped chocolate its crisp elegance. Fei Lo turned the foil over. A shard of chocolate fell free from the crease. He stared at it before knocking it into his mouth.