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Candidate for 1978's most needed Christmas present: a piggy bank containing $29.84 sent to Dennis Kucinich, mayor of bankrupt Cleveland. Most useful present: a leather-covered toolbox, complete with screwdrivers and toenail clippers, given to buxom, blond-wigged Country Singer Dolly Parton, who says her new toolbox is "very feminine looking" and filled with "things I can use on the road." Most jovially received present: a pound of bacon, presented by reporters to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance before they all landed at Andrews Air Force Base last week. Said the correspondent chosen to hand over the pork...
...tell the difference between Al ("We're for the people") Gore and George W. ("I trust the people") Bush? Take a look at what each candidate says at this week's debate about how to "save" Social Security. You have probably heard that the popular program will go bankrupt soon, but that's not exactly true. The real problem is that as the baby boomers retire and then live longer than previous cohorts, aid to the elderly will take up more of the budget, leaving little room for other priorities like health care or education. The solution we choose will...
...wall, and the words spelled nuclear war. So choosing to march to a different drum beat, Jones' disciples followed him into the jungle. Their humanistic dream: to build a better world. But, as it turned out, the handwriting was a forgery, the drummer was mad, the humanism bankrupt and the dream a nightmare...
...diminishing production cannot cut their costs; their profits fall, and they must borrow money, not to invest in new techniques and equipment but merely to keep the factories turning. "If a small-or medium-size enterprise runs into temporary cash problems," says De Bodinat, "chances are it will go bankrupt. But a big, dying industry can generally count on government subsidies. This is the opposite of survival of the fittest. It is maintaining dinosaurs while killing off the mammals...
...that a carefully circumscribed adultery will actually improve a marriage, but who in real life can control their passions as well as Doris and George? Same Time, Next Year is full of such hypocrisy; Slade's only real aim is to pander to his audience's most bankrupt fantasies...