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...than what party is in control of the White House. "One segment of the population is doing well," said Anthony Iwaskiewizc, a Milwaukee businessman backing Jackson in this week's primary. "The other is doing poorly. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Jackson is going to bring notice to the bigger politicians that there are people's needs, not just the needs of business and arms makers...
...deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering to his bride, "I tell ya, honey, she meant nuthin' to me at all." Beetlejuice means something good: that imaginative artists can bring a fading genre back from the dead...
Many companies are enlisting technology to get a jump on competitors. To bring inventories closer into line with sales, a growing number of retailers are using the bar-code system pioneered more than a decade ago by the grocery industry. As each item is rung up on the cash register, a company computer reads the product bar code and makes a change in its inventory records. In addition, several chains, including J.C. Penney and May Department Stores, now use private satellite television networks to link their outlets so that individual stores can exchange sales and inventory data with headquarters...
Strangely enough, the President could dust off and reissue a press release written to explain pardons given in 1981 to two men "who acted on high principle to bring an end to the terrorism that was threatening our nation." The two were high-ranking FBI officials convicted of authorizing illegal break-ins during 1972-73 investigations of the Weather Underground. The response by the prosecutor in that case, John Nields Jr., who served as chief House counsel in the Iran-contra hearings last summer, is just as apt today. Nields argued that pardons in such cases "send out a terrible...
...legislation would bar the IRS from setting collection goals for agents or using the amount of money they bring in as a criterion for promotion. The IRS has an internal regulation prohibiting collection goals, but it is often ignored. On the door of an IRS office in Los Angeles, an agent told Congress, was taped a sign with the rallying cry: SEIZURE FEVER -- CATCH IT. The employee with the best seizure rate in the office was given extra time off as a reward...