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...first valley of the Reagan presidency. Since then, a few rascals like Ivan Boesky have let greed run wild, but most business people got down to work and reaffirmed that the honorable creation of wealth is at the heart of a healthy democracy. The scent of the buck is kindling creativity again even in the depressed farm belt and idled steel valleys. And Reagan's sermon that trade must be free the world over will continue to resonate even as new pressures build for protection...
...this is a bitch of a cold night and the guy with the sad look must need a quarter pretty bad or he wouldn't be out in it. I hand him a buck on my way back from the bank. Big deal. Not really: a tiny fraction of this month's cafe money. When I give it to him, he looks like he's just been cured of cancer...
Instead, feminism has suffered a variety of injuries, some self-inflicted, some sustained in assualts from without. The result has been a movement which has never quite been able to set its own terms. Of late, those terms have required the movement to buck a favorite conclusion in some quarters of the popular media--namely that feminism, having attained its goals, is dead, or quite nearly so. As Sargent and her team point out, the reports of that death are greatly exaggerated...
...categories are self-explanatory, but the third may need some elucidation. "Sociability" is defined by the general nature of people who drink any given brand of beer. It is socially unacceptable to invite the head of your law firm over for dinner, pour him a glass of mouthwatering, buck-a-six-pack brew and expect to get that partnership you richly deserve. It is similarly unwise to walk into a hardhat bar somewhere in Chelsea, order a Corona and then bitch loudly when you don't get a lemon to rub ever so delicately over the mouth of the bottle...
...survey released last month by Arizona Pollster Earl de Berge, 44% rated Mecham's performance as "poor" or "very poor." Mecham professes to be unconcerned about criticism, but he may find it harder to brush off Ed Buck. A Phoenix businessman, Buck launched a recall campaign in January and distributed more than 25,000 MECHAM FOR EX-GOVERNOR bumper stickers. "He is a polarizing, divisive leader," Buck contends. Under state law, Buck must wait four more months before starting to collect the 216,746 signatures necessary to force a re-election. "I don't know who is paying him," Mecham...