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Memorial bracelets have been around since the Vietnam War, when a student group, Voices in Vital America (VIVA), began a campaign on behalf of missing American soldiers and prisoners of war, using silver bands modeled after that of TV host (and future Congressman) Robert Dornan. The bracelets took off--Bob Dole, Ronald Reagan and Sonny and Cher all donned POW/MIA bands at one time or another--and VIVA sold more than 5 million before disbanding in 1976. (They are still available through the National League of Families...
...Connie Haines made her mark with rhythmic, up-tempo songs like "Oh, Look at Me Now" and "Snooty Little Cutie." Haines got her start at the age of 4, performing in theaters in her native Savannah, Ga. She later made radio appearances with Abbott and Costello, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope and television appearances with Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan. She also performed for five U.S. Presidents, a testament to her enduring career. Haines...
...miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up. There are no pockets in a shroud, as the saying goes. We once saved about 15% of our income. By the roaring '80s the rate was 4%; now we're in negative numbers. Bob Hope liked to joke that "a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." But that too changed as easy credit bloomed and usury became another of those vices that had somehow lost its juice. The average American...
...raise taxes to cope with budget shortfalls brought on by the recession. Bush, you may remember, was never forgiven by conservatives for breaking his "read my lips" no-new-taxes pledge, and he went on to lose his re-election bid two years later. The moderate Republican minority leader Bob Michel faced his own insurrection from conservatives, including Armey and Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker when the GOP won the House in 1994. "There are two or three Gingrich-type figures in the House, say Mike Pence or Jeb Hensarling, but they would come to the role reluctantly," Armey says...
...something that is so inequitable to Main Street." This group, he says, is considerably larger than the first and wants a more balanced bill. Finally, Inslee says, there is a third group that "is in favor of doing anything because the situation is so dire. And his name is Bob." Inslee isn't being facetious: it is a group of one, a constituent named Bob, who avidly promotes the view. Inslee hopes to be able to vote yes on a revised bailout bill later this week, but only if it satisfies his concerns. "We'll see what's presented...