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...Four other naval facilities in the city are also on the list and closing them all would, supporters claim, wipe out 27% of the area's jobs and 1 of every 3 payroll dollars in the region. In a gust of rhetoric that would make a soap- opera writer blush, Mayor Joe Riley Jr. says the city could begin to die "and the tumbleweeds of broken dreams and shattered lives blow down the street...
...artfart never misses an opportunity to mention how hard he or she is working, and what difficult, pressing work it is. Although most members of this species subscribe to near-socialistic liberalism, that doesn't stop them from leading a lifestyle prodigal enough to make Thorstein Veblen blush...
George Bush's 1992 re-election campaign was so cheap and so tawdry that it would have made Madonna blush. The President reached out to every coalition and every constituency but his own base...
When most people hear lyrics like these from the hit song One Less Bitch by the rap group N.W.A., they either blush, cringe or call for the censor. But when Bryan Turner hears the song, he can almost hear the cash register ringing. Turner, 36, is co-founder of Priority Records, the label that has carried N.W.A. (Niggers with Attitude) and other "gangsta" rappers. Formed eight years ago, Priority has built a financial fortune and a reputation as the music industry's House of Raunchy...
Perez said Sedgwick blew his personality out of proportion as well. "I was called a fiery radical; I have to blush at that," he said. "That's not the way I see myself...