Word: digestable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reader's Digest condenses Scripture...
...feel twangs of animosity towards the players, we nevertheless long for them to perform. Americans revere gridiron heros more than they do the boys of summer. Does the country stay at home to watch baseball doubleheaders like it does Monday night football? Do Distraught women write Reader's Digest complaining that bug-eyed husbands watch baseball too much? The truth is at least half the top-rated shows have been Superbowls, and while most football teams are financial successes, some baseball teams never break even...
...house that's house size." His trips beyond Washington ("a company town") remind him that it is "not quite as real there. You get out and you rediscover America." Reagan's daily newspaper reading is the editorials and the comics. He gets the news in a digest prepared by his staff. His favorite place remains his small ranch near Santa Barbara. He sounds almost biblical when he talks about it. "I look to the hills from whence cometh my strength. In my case, it is absolutely true." His college years stand out now more in his mind...
...White House political adviser and a staunch Reagan loyalist. There, too, were three other estranged Administration officials: former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, former Treasury Under Secretary Norman Ture and former Director of Policy Development Martin Anderson. Direct-Mail Mogul Richard Viguerie, publisher of the New Right Conservative Digest, and Conservative Caucus President Howard Phillips were probably the most thoroughly disenchanted erstwhile Reaganites. Neo-conservative Intellectual Irving Kristol came, as did PepsiCo Chairman Don Kendall and Richard Lesher, the dapper, steely president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Also on hand were two freshman Senators and five members...
...fend off takeover attempts by the Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing Co., as well as legal attacks by a dissident Pabst shareholder, Irwin Jacobs. Meanwhile, the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit, which acquired New York City's F. & M. Schaefer Co. in 1981, is still struggling to digest its latest takeover victim, the venerable Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, which Stroh acquired for $497 million in June...