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When I moan about my boyfriend shortage, they are the only ones who sympathize with me. "Buck up, Betty. At least you're not a Heinous Bush Pig, and you're okay to talk...
...retired Navy admiral had walked the gangplank for his skipper in the 1987 congressional hearings, insisting that "the buck stops with me" in the Iran-contra affair. But once he faced trial on five charges of destroying documents and lying to Congress, John Poindexter switched signals and called Ronald Reagan as his star witness to share some responsibility for the Administration's secret policies to sell arms to Iran and assist the Nicaraguan contras. The former President failed to help his loyal National Security Adviser. Confused, forgetful and oblivious to the public record, Reagan would not even concede that Congress...
...past, we haven't been able to get the biggest bang for the buck because we have students with such different needs," Dingman says. "We'd be getting things one or two students could...
...mailing the package at bulk rate will be about a dime. Total: 26 cents. But if one person out of 100 responds to the package, that's considered an adequate return. So it's cost them $26 to extract your $25. Unless you send more, they're out a buck. Of course, the money spent finding you is lost whether you respond or not. But that's just the beginning. After waiting a decent interval -- though considerably short of the year you thought you signed up for -- they will begin trying to renew you. (When I did my taxes last...
What I may do, after renewing Handgun Control, is send five bucks to the National Rifle Association and a few groups like that. Then I'll lean back and let them spend many times that amount trying to squeeze more out of me. On the receiving end of the direct-mail business, torturing the opposition may be the way to get the most bang for your buck...