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Quayle's A.B.A. speech had its roots in meetings of the President's Council on Competitiveness beginning last December. His staff seized upon his scheduled appearance as an event that, as one aide put it, "would force us to get off the dime" on putting together a package of proposals for civil- justice reform. Such a package, it was believed, would provide Quayle with a high-visibility issue on which he could take the lead, thus enhancing his claim on the ticket for 1992. His remarks were drafted by his regular speechwriter, John McConnell, but the Vice President made extensive...
...Approximate cost of not having to use Barbasol for two shaves: $45. But when you're earning $50 million a year in interest, anything less than a C-note isn't even worth bothering to pick up off the pavement. A hundred dollars to a billionaire is like a dime to a millionaire or a penny to anyone else...
...They look like a cross between a dime-store thong and a ripped-up, stripped- down running shoe. Once the uncelebrated darling of Western college students, they are the coolest thing under your feet since Air Jordans and can cost nearly as much...
...bullet in your head. The capos were always trying to trap me, thinking maybe I got more money that I wasn't kicking in. But I used to keep records and slips of paper, weeklies, monthlies, stacks of them for three, four, five years. I turned in every dime. Then I became the boss's righthand man, and everybody was scared to death of me. Now I got the boss's ear, and nobody knows what I'm saying. Everybody trembles...
...Republicans? Victims of their own remarkable success, maybe. "Must be $50 billion on the hoof here," muttered a Kennedy veteran. Mrs. Harriman, one of the wealthiest Americans, is a kind of housemother to the Democratic Party. Megamillion lawyers like Lloyd Cutler, once counsel to President Carter, were a dime or so a dozen. "It's hard to get fire in the belly over health insurance when it's stuffed with pate," quipped the Kennedy...