a treatise against the cravat and berdash

Where applicable, local cost-of-living allowances and inducement or hardship payments have generally been in effect, and so-called frontier allowances have been paid in the more remote provinces (in 1955, for example, in Urumchi, the allowance was 15 percent of the regular wage).

As a practical matter, however, you have no more chance of escaping office politics than of inheriting Fort Knox.

[I]t's about all your life's worth to go out into that blizzard, even for just a few feet.