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Frinchman , " and sure Mrs. Tracle , " says he , that he did , " is n't this gintleman here jist his reverence Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt , and is n't he althegither and entirely the most particular frind and acquaintance that I have in the houl world ? Kollek , like Robert Moses , was vilified by those who thought that his building went too far . I at length hit upon the following expedient , which , simple as it may seem , was hailed by me , at the moment of discovery , as an invention fully equal to that of the telescope , the steam-engine , or the art of printing itself . I have shown that Touch-and-go Bullet-head was a wise man ; and the only occasion on which he did not prove infallible , was when , abandoning that legitimate home for all wise men , the East , he migrated to the city of Alexander-the-Great-o-nopolis , or some place of a similar title , out West . " There is a remarkable difference between the degree to which Americans and Europeans believe that they live in a land of opportunity . He launched a regulatory reform movement in transportation and energy that each succeeding administration embraced and enlarged , helping to transform the U.S. economy into the envy of the world . And is it really more than the three fut and a bit that there is , inny how , of the little ould furrener Frinchman that lives jist over the way , and that 's a oggling and a goggling the houl day , ( and bad luck to him , ) at the purty widdy Misthress Tracle that 's my own nixt door neighbor , ( God bliss her ) and most particuller frind and acquaintance ? A recent poll reports that one-third of Americans believe China will " soon dominate the world , " while 54 % see the emergence of China as a " threat to world peace . " Snow-Flakes , " " Night Sketches , " and " Foot-Prints on the Sea-Shore . Could he , for an instant , have supposed that , in my admonisher at Eton , in the destroyer of my honor at Oxford , in him who thwarted my ambition at Rome , my revenge in Paris , my passionate love at Naples , or what he falsely termed my avarice in Egypt , that in this , my arch-enemy and evil genius , I could fail to recognise the William Wilson of my schoolboy days , the namesake , the companion , the rival , the hatred and dreaded rival at Dr. Bransby 's ? That accounts for his reasoning in a circle , and explains why there is neither beginning nor end to him , nor to anything he says . Here he finds , among other odd things , that the people enjoy extreme happiness ; that they have no law ; that they die without pain ; that they are from ten to thirty feet in height ; that they live five thousand years ; that they have an emperor called Irdonozur ; and that they can jump sixty feet high , when , being out of the gravitating influence , they fly about with fans . " And shud ye be wantin ' to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite , and the laider of the hot tun in the houl city o ' Lonon - - why it 's jist mesilf . With the exception of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt , no president has inherited a situation as difficult as that which faced Gerald Ford on Aug. 9 , 1974 , when he took the oath of office . One of the first votes facing the new Democratic-controlled Congress will be another " supplemental " budget request for $ 100 billion-plus to keep the war going .