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Astrachan, who went through recruiting for both consulting and investment banking, said some consulting firms "seemed into the idea" of the thesis, but that investment banks "didn't give a damn...
...part, Clinton sees Lott as the kind of Southerner who eagerly sought to join the local power structure and didn't give a damn about those who didn't enjoy the same opportunities. No one has ever accused Lott of using racist language or appeals, but Clinton looks askance at Lott's voting record: against extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; against the federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.; against a memorial for civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi; in favor of extending tax breaks to segregated schools. Political consultant Dick Morris, who has worked...
Just so you know, your visit is not as unexpected as it seems. All juniors on campus received highly-detailed mailings some weeks ago alerting us to the fact. Also, your frequent phone calls about hotel and restaurant reservations and that damn schizophrenia lecture to be given this morning kept the impending weekend at the front of our "to do" lists...
...movies (Ghost, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters) with the same treatment of otherworldly experiences have numbed us to the once-ingenious plot. It's particularly ironic that his plays should seem hackneyed, since Coward's ideas broke into the conservatism of the 1940's with his sexual innuendo and fresh comedic touch. Damn that Hollywood...
Restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself. In 1883, a New York District Court upheld a telephone company's rule prohibiting the use of "improper or vulgar" language on its lines. Apparently, a Mr. Pugh had used the word "damn" in a phone conversation, and his service was discontinued. Pugh challenged the company in court but the judge ruled against him: "The telephone," wrote the judge, "reaches into many family circles. It must be remembered that it is possible, from the peculiar arrangement of the instrument, to have a communication that...