While bestriding the macro-economic agenda, the book's sideswipes against trendy micro-economics, often in footnotes, read like a sustained in-joke against the generation for whom all problems seemed solved, except the street price of cocaine in Georgetown.
A footnote reads: "Best of luck for your bright future".
Nagasaki is listed as having a population of *253,000, and the footnote reads: "Before the atom bombing".
The Senate footnote reads: "There are also few CIA records detailing the rendition process for detainees and their transportation to or between detention sites.
One prim footnote reads: "We do not thoroughly comprehend the author's drift in the foregoing paragraph, but are inclined to think its tone reprehensible, and its tendency impolitic in the present stage of our national difficulties".
A footnote reads: 'Formerly proprietor of the Hôtel de l'Europe, a luxurious establishment situated at the bottom of the Nevsky Prospect, he took to drink, got into financial difficulty and was ruined when his wife absconded with his cash-box and a colonel of cuirassiers.
REPRESENTATIVE Thomas M. Davis III does not want an asterisk next to his name in some political almanac with a footnote reading, "Bungled Republican control of the House".
As expressed in the footnotes (you HAVE been reading the footnotes, right?), the meme of heterosexual sex ending with male orgasm and having an orgasm being the goal of sex for all people regardless of sex or gender is something I feel could use some challenging.
Take an extra 15% off sale and regular-priced purchases in stores only with this coupon," but included footnotes that read, "Except cosmetics and fragrances"?
Read captions, footnotes, subtopics when reading the chapter or a financial report, check out the boldface and italics, quotes, etc.
A mystifying footnote simply read: "In view of the company's tax structuring no provisions were made for corporate tax".
