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Born in downtrodden South Boston in 1939. Flynn's career has been a prototype for political success. Son of a longshoreman and a house cleaner, he went on to Providence College, where he was an All-American basketball player...
...like abortion is that in the surrogate situation someone does want the child, the desire being compelling. Indeed, everyone concerned wants the child; the prospective family and the surrogate parent too, either for profit or as an act of philanthropy. It may be argued that adoption is a cleaner and less cumbersome method, for all its bureaucratic impediments, but this is not an issue enhanced by taking sides. A couple wants a child. If the insemination is artificial, the parental attitude is real...
...Yepremian's old Lion teammate, "they'd jump up and down and yell, 'I kick a touchdown! I kick a touchdown!' " Yepremian says, "I was short, I was bald, and I didn't understand football. But worst of all, I walked off the field cleaner than I walked...
...were goods really cheaper? In 1933 the average annual household income was $32 a week; in 1981 it was $497 a week. So while the latest-model Kenmore upright vacuum cleaner costs $99.95 now, compared with $17.45 then, it can be paid for with a day's work, pretax, whereas the 1933 Kenmore cost nearly three days' salary. The 1982 vacuum cleans better too. Some items even have lower price tags today. Sears does not sell a twelve-tube Superheterodyne console radio any longer, but at $52.95 it could hardly be a match for this year...
Surely you have little use for a makeshift device constructed from vacuum cleaner parts, points from 1967 Mustang, and a handful of marbles. We, however, being the sentimental sort, would take great care of indeed, we would enshrine--this symbolic highlight of the 1982 football season. Please give it back. Sincerely yours, Paul E. Gray [President...