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...result, and although television ratings may not indicate it, the third of seven debates in the state's neck-and-neck senatorial race was a definite boon for the voters...
...environment that Harvard creates doesn't allow it to come up," Tserotas says. "Everything is provided for us here. There isn't an instance that would make class such a blatant issue. It's kind of sugarcoated." Tserotas says the reluctance to tackle class issues headon is both a boon and a curse...
Graham's first victim is his school friend Mick, who was planning to take young Sue the librarian to the "Dickie Boon Show." Mick did not know, however, that Sue was the object of Graham's affection. Soon after Mick, Graham decides to use the poison on his step-mother. When she doesn't go quickly enough, Graham decides to try another poison that he'd read about in the comic books, thallium. Excited about his new discovery, Graham starts to use thallium on other members of his family, until he is caught by the police and sent...
...identify essential industries and protect them selectively, on the model of the import quotas that Ronald Reagan imposed on Japanese cars. But among economists, an otherwise squabbling breed, there's something like a consensus that for the great majority of American workers, free trade is a long-term boon that delivers better bargains on consumer goods and boosts demand for the products of America's fast-growing, high-wage export industries. More important factors in holding down wages are automation, sluggish growth in productivity and consumer demand for lower-priced goods, whether foreign or domestic. Tariffs against shirts made...
...chorus of snickers and see the synchronized head-shaking deriding the Buchanan candidacy. His campaign can all too easily be dismissed by, and might eventually be sunk by, Buchanan's flirtation with authoritarianism, if not outright racism and anti-Semitism. True enough, Pat Buchanan's success has been a boon to all those who can almost hear the strains of "Sieg Heil to the Chief" wafting through their minds as they ease into bed at night...