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Delaware Senator Joe Biden came across as the boldest in poking at the others, but he tempered his remarks with deft jokes on himself. "I'm officially 6 ft. 8 in.," said the candidate accused of lacking substance. Pause. "Unfortunately I'm standing on my record." Even the departed Gary Hart was not spared. Instead of the Seven Dwarfs as a designation for the field, Biden noted, the seven deadly sins might be better. "I've got six of them covered -- greed, envy, anger, avarice, gluttony and sloth." Pause. "We've got an opening for lust...
...City was not only the boldest political anthem of the '80s, it was also the funkiest. Besides writing the song, Van Zandt was the main man behind the album, the video and the documentary about Sun City, which brought hard rock together with hard facts about South African politics. Freedom -- No Compromise continues that same tough tradition of humanist ideology and high steppin'. "The trickiest part is not to be rhetorical," Van Zandt says, "but to make the songs into an emotional, human communication...
...Chicago's USG have their way, nary a puff of cigarette smoke will fill the air at any of its acoustical-products-division plants -- or, for that matter, in the cars or boats or homes of some 1,500 of its employees in eight states. In one of the boldest prohibitions ever attempted by a U.S. employer, USG has told the workers they will not be allowed to smoke on the job, or anywhere else. The company plans to use mandatory medical exams to check up on compliance and enforce...
Ironically, Sarney's very success could gradually limit his power. The ambitious new politicians who will now take their seats in congress and state governors' mansions are already jockeying for position within the P.M.D.B. It may not be long before the boldest among them begin to challenge Sarney's authority...
Only a few years ago, Merrill Lynch led a stampede by Wall Street investment + firms to create "financial supermarkets" that would allow customers to shop under one roof for everything from money-market funds and individual retirement accounts to life insurance and home mortgages. One of Merrill Lynch's boldest expansion moves was investing in a real estate operation that bought and sold homes, offered mortgages and provided relocation services for transferred executives...