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Indeed, today's Tag Lines seem to lack the inspirational quality of their ancestors. Among the original batch, the Tag Lines carried instructive messages like "Great men never fell great, small men never feel small," and "The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom so labelled...
...Accord. For Quebec its guarantees of a "distinct society" were a bare minimum, but for many in English Canada they went too far. When Meech Lake was not adopted, Quebec scheduled a referendum on its future for October of this year. The federal government is working on a new batch of compromises, which should be ready for national discussion in April. Beyond this hurdle is the next general election, which must be held no later than 1993, and which may see Canadian politics fragmented into five parties -- Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives, the opposition Liberals, the socialist New Democratic Party...
Thus it is possible to write a basic, though speculative, script: the vote in the early primaries is distributed so widely that no candidate is in sight of a majority. A late entrant sweeps the last batch of primaries, notably the final ones on June 2 in California, New Jersey, Alabama, New Mexico and Montana, the closest approach to a nationwide one-day sampling that the season offers. The superdelegates flock to his banner. Finally, one of the early candidates who obviously is not going to make it -- or who has already dropped out -- swings a deal. In return, perhaps...
...Government Printing Office, the Warren Report was also published by Bantam, Doubleday, McGraw-Hill and Popular Library (which collectively sold more than 1 million copies). But even though a snazzy edition might move smartly up the charts about now, none of the publishers are printing a fresh batch. Check your local library...
...alas, was unfounded. When the results were released late Thursday to the survey's clients, they showed just another in a long series of declines in consumer spirit: a drop from 68.2 in December to 67.1 in early January. If that wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending...