ULTIMATE SEVERANCE

(Flim-flam artists, captains of industry, Wall Street pira...)

Flim-flam artists, captains of industry, Wall Street piranhas, impatient mobsters, spinmeisters and assorted mountebanks abound in Ultimate Severance, a highly satirical and imaginative novel that provides a public relations guidebook to the reality of spin and humbuggery in the 21st Century. With the end of the War on Terror through the accidental launch of new "lite'n kleen" nukes, a culture of euphoria, ethical and social impairment and calls for numerous peace dividends is again in fashion. This is clearly an environment of business opportunity for financially-bleeding Trotter Pugg Mitchell, a world PR giant, and its clients such as Old Masters Originals, a maker of "limited edition" reproduction art. And when the agency teams up with Mob Boss Joey Lasagna to abet dicey corporate megamergers, they provide Wall Street raiders with a new quick-fix ultimate severance package: an innovative Corporate Governance Program powered by Trotter's new "language of happiness."Cash flow gushes. Money is well laundered. Trotter President Marvin Runnymede sets up a European "multi-use facility" in a 500-year old chateau in Provence; plans to sell "Instant PR Agency" franchises to Third World countries, and hires has-been "Greats" to promote dubious products and ventures. But fortune's smile becomes a sardonic grin. So many stubborn CEOs undergo fatal retirements in colorful circumstances around the world that a powerful US Senator decides to advance his presidential ambitions with the usual TV-circus hearings. Well-cooked dishes of suspicion, buncombe and open doubt are served to the media.In the ensuing rush for strategic exits, winners and losers fake out, promote and wound each other in surprising ways; the faux rond wheels of justice grind and clank, and the "language of happiness" covers all.

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The Great Free Enterprise Gambit

("Gambit" is the satiric story of International Coagulants...)

"Gambit" is the satiric story of International Coagulants, a glittering corporate octopus bleeding to death from grossly inept management, and a cast of dubious characters battling each other for control amid clouds of spintalk, cant and illusion. The time is the late 1970s but it could be today. Readers and critics of no known relationship to me have called this book one of the funnier ones around on Big Business pomposities and sleazy politicians. Modesty, of course, prohibits authorial concurrence. However, this book most certainly is a virtual case history for my recently published "The Careful Voter's Dictionary of Language Pollution (Understanding Willietalk and Other Spinspeak)." The "willietalk" dictionary is a decryption device for decoding and combating the current flood of deliberately polluted language that always says real sewage is Chardonnay and real Chardonnay is sewage. At International Coagulants, J. Wigglesworth ("Wiggy") Pratt, shakily reigns as CEO, a thirsty "Roman senator with silver hair, great dignity and blue but somewhat fishy eyes." He tries to save the company with a series of smarmy new ventures, well-cooked books and a secret deal with Major Ibn Mamoud, elegant Levantine representative of the Sheik of Sharm, the beneficial owner of Yankee Properties, Inc. Meantime, Ward Winchester Read, Wiggy's arch rival who looks like a cross between Jack Kennedy and a frustrated battle tank commander, plots a takeover from exile in a plush non-person suite in the IC Tower in New York. Others with key roles are the power hungry Senator Jefferson Jennings Bryan of the great state of Louisiana; a sinister ex-CIA operative and master of disguise; a Mexican Zapotec Indian oil billionaire named Joe the X; and Gaston Edsel, a former fork-lift truck operator elected to Congress by a fluke, elected Vice President in error and elevated to the White House when his running mate resigned after being exposed as an unemployed summer stock impersonator of presidents. There are multiple plots, slippery maneuvers, double betrayals, spinspeak news releases and stumblebum connivings. The IC Tower itself is besieged by a private IC army of social dropouts recruited under a government contract to serve as peacekeepers in Third World countries. The stock market swings insanely, folly is loosed and the world wanders toward cataclysm. But don't despair: The President is awakened in the Oval Office from his usual post fast-food lunch nap just in time to defend Free Enterprise and the "American Dreamette." A final surprise resolution comes decked in yards of euphemism. And there is even something of a vision (limited) for tomorrow.

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Spacecraft and missiles of the world, 1966

(Emphasis is placed on space exploration, covering the U.S...)

Emphasis is placed on space exploration, covering the U.S. Mercury and Gemini flights and the Russian ventures. Plans for the foreseeable moon landing are set forth in detail. International rocket and missile weaponry for strategic and tactical military use is also presented in terms of the most recent data available.

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Spacecraft and Missiles of the World, 1962

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The Careful Voter's Dictionary of Language Pollution: Understanding Willietalk and Other Spinspeak

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Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution

(If you believe that no matter how much lipstick you put o...)

If you believe that no matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it is still a pig, then this book is for you. . Spinmeisters today are everywhere. They seek to befuddle you by polluting our language, gussying up and diddling down our everyday words, moving familiar signposts, changing the maps in our heads. Our words - the gold standard coins of rational thinking -- are being debased. Spin rots the mind. Continuing growth of spinspeak pushes us daily toward an Orwellian catastrophe: a mentally benumbed America; a manipulated society trying hopelessly to communicate using words with totally corrupted meanings. Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution is designed to help you fight this slimy tide of fog. The book contains: a history of spin; more than 1,100 current definitions of spinspeak in politics, business, government, academia, health care, the arts and everyday life; a technical glossary describing more than 80 infectious varieties of wordspin, lookspin and soundspin. Skeptical exposure is the solution wherever the fog of spinspeak roils communication. The mind you save could be your own.

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(Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution) Author: James Baar published on (August, 2004)

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