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...ruling may actually deprive the IRS of tax money, by forcing publishers to destroy their major asset--their inventory, Godine said...
Twice the President broke into Spanish, and he emphasized that he had appointed four times the number of Hispanic federal judges there were when he came into office. Carter's most valuable asset in Texas may be the promised appearances by Ted Kennedy, a hero in the Mexican-American community because of his name and his longstanding work in liberalizing immigration policies. But Reagan was by no means willing to concede the Hispanic vote, taking on the Texas heat, wearing a Mexican guayabera shirt and touting his own record of appointing Hispanics to office. In his enthusiasm, he made...
...times, it seems that Bryant can lave the same effect on the whole state of Alabama. Governor Fob James, who is far less famous than Bryant in the state, praises him as being "larger than life." Bill Baxley, Alabama's former attorney general, calls Bryant "the No. 1 asset of the state." He is certainly treated as though he were: two uniformed state policemen act as bodyguards and chauffeurs on game days. Bryant has achieved a pop-hero status. His face appears on T shirts and bumper stickers, and there are even postcards showing him strolling on water...
Ironically, the series' greatest flaw is a result of its principal asset: Miller's agile mind. The host's penchant for explaining everything in terms of something else-gunpowder to show how nerves fire muscles into contraction; cartography to demonstrate the differences between organs and tissues-can be instructive. But analogies are used so lavishly that audiences may be subject to acute metaphoritis. The going occasionally gets so dense that the viewer is tempted to cry: "Give it to me straight, Doc. I can take...
Galagher, who sat out last fall because of illness, ran a fine inaugural race and should be a great asset to the harriers this fall. Coming in at seventh, eighth, and ninth spots was the trio of freshman Linda Yeager, sophomore Wiley McCarthy, and junior Martha Clabby, striving to maintain some sense of class order as they finished...