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* DoubleDontKnow:
** In ''Overload'', Nimrod Goldman, a vice president of Golden State Power and Light (a FictionalCounterpart of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company) has evidence another executive -- a former US Supreme Court Justice -- lied when he said he knew nothing about electric power theft, and probably was aware (but they can't prove it) that such thefts were occurring on a ranch his family owns. The head of the utility's Property Protection Department asks him if they are going to continue trying to keep the former Justice's name out of the newspapers as being potentially involved in thefts from his own employer:
--->"I don't know." Nim sighed. "I simply don't know. And, in any case, it won't be my decision."
** In ''In High Places'', Alan Maitland is the lawyer for Henri Duval, who is a stowaway on a freighter who has no papers, and thus, no country will admit him. Maitland has been trying to find a way to allow Henri to be admitted to Canada. Dan Orliffe, a local reporter covering the story, mentions Prime Minister Howden will be arriving in town and his newspaper could arrange for Maitland to meet him. As desperate as Maitland is to get Henri admitted, he's not sure if he should.
--->Dan Orliffe's face had a studied earnestness. 'Everybody has an angle, but you and I would be helping each other, and Duval too. Besides, with that kind of advance publicity Howden wouldn't dare refuse.' \\
'I don't know, I just don't know.'
** ''In High Places'' again: Brian Richardson, the manager of the Political Party the Prime Minister of Canada belongs to, has asked the Prime Minister's secretary, Millie, to marry him. She's not sure if it will work.
--->Unhappily she answered, 'Brian, darling, I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.' \\
Or do I know? She thought.
** In ''Overload'', Nimrod Goldman, a vice president of Golden State Power and Light (a FictionalCounterpart of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company) has evidence another executive -- a former US Supreme Court Justice -- lied when he said he knew nothing about electric power theft, and probably was aware (but they can't prove it) that such thefts were occurring on a ranch his family owns. The head of the utility's Property Protection Department asks him if they are going to continue trying to keep the former Justice's name out of the newspapers as being potentially involved in thefts from his own employer:
--->"I don't know." Nim sighed. "I simply don't know. And, in any case, it won't be my decision."
** In ''In High Places'', Alan Maitland is the lawyer for Henri Duval, who is a stowaway on a freighter who has no papers, and thus, no country will admit him. Maitland has been trying to find a way to allow Henri to be admitted to Canada. Dan Orliffe, a local reporter covering the story, mentions Prime Minister Howden will be arriving in town and his newspaper could arrange for Maitland to meet him. As desperate as Maitland is to get Henri admitted, he's not sure if he should.
--->Dan Orliffe's face had a studied earnestness. 'Everybody has an angle, but you and I would be helping each other, and Duval too. Besides, with that kind of advance publicity Howden wouldn't dare refuse.' \\
'I don't know, I just don't know.'
** ''In High Places'' again: Brian Richardson, the manager of the Political Party the Prime Minister of Canada belongs to, has asked the Prime Minister's secretary, Millie, to marry him. She's not sure if it will work.
--->Unhappily she answered, 'Brian, darling, I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.' \\
Or do I know? She thought.
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** In ''Overload'', Nimrod Goldman, a vice president of Golden State Power and Light (a FictionalCounterpart of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company) has evidence another executive -- a former US Supreme Court Justice -- lied when he said he knew nothing about electric power theft, and probably was aware (but they can't prove it) that such thefts were occurring on a ranch his family owns. The head of the utility's Property Protection Department asks him if they are going to continue trying to keep the former Justice's name out of the newspapers as being potentially involved in thefts from his own employer:
--->"I don't know." Nim sighed. "I simply don't know. And, in any case, it won't be my decision."
** In ''In High Places'', Alan Maitland is the lawyer for Henri Duval, who is a stowaway on a freighter who has no papers, and thus, no country will admit him. Maitland has been trying to find a way to allow Henri to be admitted to Canada. Dan Orliffe, a local reporter covering the story, mentions Prime Minister Howden will be arriving in town and his newspaper could arrange for Maitland to meet him. As desperate as Maitland is to get Henri admitted, he's not sure if he should.
--->Dan Orliffe's face had a studied earnestness. 'Everybody has an angle, but you and I would be helping each other, and Duval too. Besides, with that kind of advance publicity Howden wouldn't dare refuse.' \\
'I don't know, I just don't know.'
** ''In High Places'' again: Brian Richardson, the manager of the Political Party the Prime Minister of Canada belongs to, has asked the Prime Minister's secretary, Millie, to marry him. She's not sure if it will work.
--->Unhappily she answered, 'Brian, darling, I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.' \\
Or do I know? She thought.
** In ''Overload'', Nimrod Goldman, a vice president of Golden State Power and Light (a FictionalCounterpart of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company) has evidence another executive -- a former US Supreme Court Justice -- lied when he said he knew nothing about electric power theft, and probably was aware (but they can't prove it) that such thefts were occurring on a ranch his family owns. The head of the utility's Property Protection Department asks him if they are going to continue trying to keep the former Justice's name out of the newspapers as being potentially involved in thefts from his own employer:
--->"I don't know." Nim sighed. "I simply don't know. And, in any case, it won't be my decision."
** In ''In High Places'', Alan Maitland is the lawyer for Henri Duval, who is a stowaway on a freighter who has no papers, and thus, no country will admit him. Maitland has been trying to find a way to allow Henri to be admitted to Canada. Dan Orliffe, a local reporter covering the story, mentions Prime Minister Howden will be arriving in town and his newspaper could arrange for Maitland to meet him. As desperate as Maitland is to get Henri admitted, he's not sure if he should.
--->Dan Orliffe's face had a studied earnestness. 'Everybody has an angle, but you and I would be helping each other, and Duval too. Besides, with that kind of advance publicity Howden wouldn't dare refuse.' \\
'I don't know, I just don't know.'
** ''In High Places'' again: Brian Richardson, the manager of the Political Party the Prime Minister of Canada belongs to, has asked the Prime Minister's secretary, Millie, to marry him. She's not sure if it will work.
--->Unhappily she answered, 'Brian, darling, I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.' \\
Or do I know? She thought.
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* AsYouKnow: Usually averted as characters would mention some "insider term," and Hailey would do a quick aside to the reader on what it meant. Played straight in ''Hotel'' when Curtis O'Keefe tells Trent how his longtime bartender has been stealing from him, listing the various ways a bartender does it to a veteran hotel owner who would know all that. Justified as O'Keefe is pouring a little salt in the wound and Trent is forced to acknowledge how he was so blinded by the supposed "friendship" with the man that he missed the obvious signs of his theft.
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* TheOldestTricksInTheBook: In ''The Moneychangers'', Roscoe meets with powerful executive Quatermain who wants a $50 million loan from FMA bank (a huge sum back then). When Roscoe is unsure, Quatermain says that "if it's too much, I'll go to someone else" Afraid of losing a big partner like Sunatco, Roscoe agrees. Too late, Roscoe learns Sunatco is on the verge of bankruptcy and was using the loan to stay afloat with no intention (or resources) to pay it back. Remembering the talk with Quatermain, Roscoe is kicking himself that he fell for such an ancient ploy.
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* TheOldestTricksInTheBook: In ''The Moneychangers'', Roscoe meets with powerful executive Quatermain who wants a $50 million loan from FMA bank (a huge sum back then).($280 million in 2022 money). When Roscoe is unsure, Quatermain says that "if it's too much, I'll go to someone else" Afraid of losing a big partner like Sunatco, Roscoe agrees. Too late, Roscoe learns Sunatco is on the verge of bankruptcy and was using the loan to stay afloat with no intention (or resources) to pay it back. Remembering the talk with Quatermain, Roscoe is kicking himself that he fell for such an ancient ploy.
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* ProperlyParanoid: In ''The Moneychangers'', Alex is the one person on the FMA board warning about a major partnership with the Sunatco corporation, especially if it means giving a (then-astronomical) $50 million loan. Alex hires an investigator who soon discovers how Sunatco is on the verge of bankruptcy and could drag FMA down with them.
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* ProperlyParanoid: In ''The Moneychangers'', Alex is the one person on the FMA board warning about a major partnership with the Sunatco corporation, especially if it means giving a (then-astronomical) $50 million loan.loan ($280 million in 2022 money). Alex hires an investigator who soon discovers how Sunatco is on the verge of bankruptcy and could drag FMA down with them.
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* FailedASpotCheck: In ''The Moneychangers,'' Alex is the one member of the bank board warning about giving Sunatco a then-outrageous $50 million loan. Too late, the bank realizes Sunatco is on the verge of bankruptcy and the entire loan almost totally extinguished. Showing a report on it from an investigator, Alex points out so much of this could have easily been discovered but no one put it together. He relates Sunatco is trying to find some new sucker to keep them afloat but those potential "investors" are asking the key question that FMA should have been asking: Why does a supposedly strong corporation ''need'' loans that huge in the first place?
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* FailedASpotCheck: In ''The Moneychangers,'' Alex is the one member of the bank board warning about giving Sunatco a then-outrageous $50 million loan.loan ($280 million in 2022 money). Too late, the bank realizes Sunatco is on the verge of bankruptcy and the entire loan almost totally extinguished. Showing a report on it from an investigator, Alex points out so much of this could have easily been discovered but no one put it together. He relates Sunatco is trying to find some new sucker to keep them afloat but those potential "investors" are asking the key question that FMA should have been asking: Why does a supposedly strong corporation ''need'' loans that huge in the first place?
