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...result, even an inexpensive package will cost 10 cents to produce. Buying your name from Citizens for Massive Federal Subsidies to Decadent Art (which you joined last year) might cost Americans for Flag Burning another 6 cents, and mailing the package at bulk rate will be about a dime. Total: 26 cents. But if one person out of 100 responds to the package, that's considered an adequate return. So it's cost them $26 to extract your $25. Unless you send more, they're out a buck. Of course, the money spent finding you is lost whether you respond...
...that Savage would receive no help from the party's campaign treasury. That did not matter much, since the funds generally are reserved for candidates in tight races against a Republican -- and Democrats running in Savage's Chicago district are invariably shoo-ins. Said Savage: "We never got a dime from the Democratic Party. I guess he's not going to give me what he's never given me before...
...plan comes at a time when the emptiness of much of the national agenda has become painfully obvious. Like a teenager promising a night on the town without a dime in his pocket, the Bush Administration is beginning to look a little silly issuing long reports outlining national problems without coming up with any funds for the solutions. Just two weeks ago, Bush unveiled a glossy 129-page "transportation strategy," a litany of crumbling roads, collapsing bridges, clogged highways and congested airports, with such suggestions as states' picking up the tab and installing tollbooths. The transportation strategy resembled the Bush...
...civil, smile, give a dime or two, say hello; by all means. But do not accept the state of homelessness as a given in the analysis of the "correct" attitude toward our homeless neighbors. That is where not only "incredible insensitivity" but injustice lies. Jennifer Mayher '93 Co-chair, Committee on the Homeless Phillips Brooks House Association
...present time, thousands are handeddiplomas who are not only functionally illiteratebut are also incapable of making a transaction ata five-and-dime store," Silber said...