Word: barbe
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Forbes' rise in the polls has led to a case of me-tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year...
First, Pamela Anderson got a tattoo to advertise her upcoming movie, Barb Wire. Now Nike chairman Phil Knight has his own indelible self-promo. It's a "swoosh"-the Nike logo-on his left ankle. He was needled into it by young bucks at the shoe company, many of whom (no doubt counting on never being fired) also sport swooshes...
...Barb Grimes Chalfont, Pennsylvania AOL: TchrBarb...
...love public radio. I rely on the BBC to relay the increasingly distressing news of our world in soothing British voices. I need NPR to inform me of my elected representatives' latest antics. I have been known to stand and applaud when Nina Totenburg lands a particularly well-aimed barb on Speaker Newt. (Not that it's particularly challenging to make fun of the distinguished gentleman from Georgia, but that's another tirade...
...billion from projected welfare costs of $600 billion, and as much as $275 billion from Medicare and Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients. The report, in a barb at opponents who demanded to know where the GOP cuts would fall, challenged Democrats "to detail their alternatives, or to explain what taxes they would raise, where they would cut Social Security or why their believe the federal budget should not be balanced...