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Still, by two widely followed barometers, Kennedy is the Senate's liberal standard bearer. Last year, as usual, the Americans for Democratic Action gave him a nearly 100% approval rating for his voting record on major legislation, while the Americans for Constitutional Action graded him at close to zero...
...might have trouble filling out the whole of this miniature allegory, but that's undoubtedly Barth in the corner, playing with his toy trains. The great conservative, the practitioner of a lost art, the bearer of the torch--so Barth justifies his extravagances...
...team speculate that the interchange first occurred in an ancestor, perhaps through spontaneous mutation. It affected genes on the chromosomes that may direct normal kidney growth or protect against kidney cancer. Passed on through the generations, the translocation seems to be a visible warning sign that its bearer has a good chance of developing cancer...
...young woman has begun to make a small fortune on Wall Street by selling municipal bonds to doctors and dentists. They pay in cash from earnings they have not reported to the Internal Revenue, and there is no record of the bond purchases because they are so-called bearer bonds and therefore do not carry the name of the owner. Gambling casinos are surging in part because they are convenient places to spend cash. Says Albert W. Merck, a member of New Jersey's casino control commission: "A casino fills a fascinating function in an economy where there...
...contends, because Government guidelines are trying artificially to hold down wages and prices. Wriston has the intriguing idea that those prices and wages represent an essential form of economic speech, that money is a form of information. Thus, the Government is sore at business because it has been the bearer of bad tidings...