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Today Rubin talks a line that would cheer his generation's fathers. Confides he: "Money is power. Information is power. One of the reasons that the rich become richer and the poor poorer in America is that the wealthy can afford the financial information supplied by lawyers and accountants...
...gold earned by Coe and Ovett, Britain's Allan Wells won the 100-meter dash and Daley Thompson took the decathlon. With 36 nations heeding President Carter's call for a boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, there was little else for the West to cheer about. Pietro Mennea, a flamboyant Italian, finished first in the 200-meter run, and Ethiopian Miruts Yifter, listed as 35 but rumored to be in his 40s, captured...
Thatcher staves off a challenge, but has little to cheer about...
Well, he looked at me like I was the crazy one and told me if I didn't like his hollering, I should move. I was just about to tell him where he could go, when a loud cheer went up from the stands. Down on the field, where they play the game, one of the Bears' netmen had just caught a line drive, to put the game into sudden death overkill...
...result, virtually every segment of society, every philosophical faction and special-interest group, had something to cheer about, and perhaps to jeer about as well. Antiabortion campaigners were rewarded with a politically touchy decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials...