Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion of returning to the gold standard comes from the same supply-side economists who fostered the cuts in personal income taxes that President Reagan is now trying to get through Congress. Such supply-siders as Economist Arthur Laffer and Consultant Jude Wanniski have been putting the gold bug in politicians' ears for the past several years. Republican Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, co-author of the Kemp-Roth tax-cut bill, says that he plans to take up the gold banner as soon as he has completed his drive to lower taxes. Republican Congressman Ronald Paul...
...night so that she could become a theatrical lawyer. Finally, in 1965, she landed a job with James Nederlander, who not only produced plays but owned theaters. Nederlander worked her hard, and when she threatened to quit, he hired an assistant for her, another victim of the Broadway bug, Nelle Nugent...
...parables of contemporary moral malaise, in which ordinary people are infected by a malignancy as invisible and pervasive as the most swinish flu virus. As his vision aged, like rancid fruit, the malignancy crept closer to home. In They Came from Within, it was a small, snouty bug, transmitted from mouth to mouth during sex. In Rabid it was a bloodsucking organ that sprouts from the carrier's armpit. In The Brood and Scanners it is the mind itself, splitting the nuclear family and precipitating a psychic apocalypse...
Rogers ran indoor and outdoor track that year and again junior year, consistently finishing strong in the half-mile. Then something happened along the banks of the Seine; and the distance running bug bit hard...
...that the distance bug has bit, Rogers will never stop running. Next time you're strolling along the Seine in Paris, keep a look out for a slim, blondponytailed figure with a light stride and a French history book under her arm; you can bet it's Becky Rogers...