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...around the U.S., the lament is the same: in ways both devious and sinister, and too mystifying to understand, Big Oil is somehow out to rip off the public. Says Irene McMackin, a Milwaukee public relations consultant: "I just don't feel the crisis is real. I don't trust the oil companies." Adds William Meier, an Indiana insurance agent: "My emotional
...situation at Salem, Ore., is an example of what the so-called women's libbers have brought about with ERA and is an opportunity for any devious female to bring the courts and lawyers into the sanctity of the home and the bedroom. The piece of legislation that permits the Rideout case is another step toward bringing complete chaos to our country...
Members of the football team could not be reached for comment concerning the alleged allegations of the devious dimwits because they all left for a weekend of fun and frolic at the Cape in their Volkswagen Rabbits, Chevrolet Vegas, American Motors Pacers, and Audi 100LS's immediately following the game...
These earlier products of elite white colleges had, moreover, an infinitely more vicious and extensive pattern of racism to endure. And though today's blacks at white colleges use an anti-white rhetoric that claims a more onerous or devious confrontation with racism than before, this is a mistaken perception and many who hold it do so dishonestly, or at least as part of a fantasy of rebellion...
...package by angering some lukewarm supporters of that bill with his public works veto. The natural gas deregulation section of the energy program will be voted upon in the House this week. Some Republicans who supported Carter's veto even conceded that they had done so for the devious purpose of encouraging opposition to the energy bill...