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Both Reagans have always been superstitious, observing such harmless rituals as knocking on wood and walking around, never under, ladders. The President puts a certain coin and a gold lucky charm in his pocket each morning, and routinely tosses salt over his left shoulder not just when he spills some but before all his meals. Ronald Reagan freely admits his superstition, but in a manner that allays concern. In his 1965 autobiography, Where's the Rest of Me?, he breezily describes his and Nancy's attention to syndicated horoscopes. And Nancy Reagan is far from the first First Lady...
...dead heat, it's a flip of the coin," said Bob Burns, a spokesman for the Jackson campaign in Milwaukee...
...dial a phone number. You can flip a coin 2.3 times. You can pour enough milk for your cereal or try to write the concluding sentence of a paper that's due in five minutes. You could also run a red light. Or even think 4.1 thoughts...
...quicker than a program trade, here he is, hedging his investments with a sixth novel. The Palace offers no scenario for economic disaster. Quite the contrary. The book is a racy tale of how one clever and gutsy (though not especially honest) fellow can rise from being a Philadelphia coin dealer to owning the splashiest gambling casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City...
Although legislation was introduced in Congress last fall, so far the campaign for a hard dollar remains a shiny dream. "We're talking strictly public inertia," admits Jim Benfield, a lobbyist for the Coin Coalition, which includes copper interests and convenience stores. About half a billion of the last dollar-coin attempt, the forlorn Susan B. Anthony dollar that was issued eight years ago, collect dust in vaults across the country...