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What: Daniel Ellsberg blows a whistle; Nixon blows a gasket.
But for all the homage to the businessman the Monthly has published, the magazine blows a gasket whenever any corporation (except perhaps locally owned passenger train ventures in West Virginia) or individual (except perhaps the first-generation immigrant inventors of low-cost military >;hardware) actually clears a profit.
Lisa, who's successful in her career (and apparently far less so socially) and in search of that ``financially secure'' fella, just about blows a gasket when two guys blow her off.
 
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