And when you begin refuting one another's reasons, fussing back and forth, you generally do what a nationally known industrial relations authority warns you against: you wallow in the mud with the pig. He says, 'Never wallow in the mud with a pig, because the pig likes it.' That is exactly what he wants, because you are on his home ground. He can think of arguments as well as you can, so where do you come out?

From time to time one of Georges' numerous girls strays into my net by calling at the flat when he is not there, and the incident serves for a while to sharpen my taedium vitae.

She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.

Subsequently, Applied Biosystems remerged with its sister division Celera to form the current corporation, Applera.