Word: dead
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...silent treatment on the street, and a few have been assaulted by angry customers. Nebraska farmers have taken to wearing black armbands to protest foreclosures. Bankers have also become the target of a bitter joke making the rounds in the Midwest: "Question: What's the difference between a dead skunk on the road and a dead loan officer? Answer: There are skid marks by the skunk." That kind of talk deeply offends the bankers, who in many cases grew up with and went to school with their customers...
...that proposal is likely to make the battle over credit guarantees look like a warm-up skirmish. To Stockman and Secretary of Agriculture John Block, the current farm troubles are a sign that 52 years of heavy Government involvement in agriculture have led both farmers and taxpayers to a dead end. Rural prosperity, they believe, can be rebuilt in the long run only by a long-overdue and surely painful transition to a leaner system that forces farmers to compete with little Government aid in markets at home and abroad. Says Block: "This country can no longer afford large, explosive...
...overtime, Fusco netted his only gamewinner of the year. "At first there was dead silence in the rink," says Fusco. It was weird after there had been deafening noise the whole game. There was 20 of us screaming and yelling and it was just dead silence in the rest of the rink...
...birthmark. She continued to fight what she thought was a sheltered life by planting herself in unpleasant situations. When her husband Allan received training as an army photographer, her inexperienced hand took up the camera. Her first subject was the bare lightbulb hanging from their ceiling. Later, when a dead whale washed onshore in New Jersey, she took a bus there to photograph the motionless white mass...
...full of little Podhoretz's, nor, probably, has it ever been. Eliot does indeed have more than its share of students with conservative views, but for those of us who consider ourselves "liberals," (and that's with a small 'I'--the self-conscious "Liberal" Abramowitz misses is better off dead) Eliot has one advantage. We don't fade in to the gray background of future campaign aides, Senate staffers, and Post editors crowding other Houses--and the Crimson--sort of like "snow" on a TV set. We can count on engaging in arguments with intelligent, thoughtful people who happen...