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...view of advocates of regulatory reform, including both liberals and conservatives, the Administration mistook the public's disgust with red tape for hostility to all forms of Government regulation. Polls show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made...
...reveals her beautiful sopraho in the duet "Barcelona" with Robert. And dark haired dark eyed Halpen as the cynical drunken Joanne displays a stunning voice in two numbers- "The Little Things," which mocks the supposed bliss of marriage and the solo, "The Ladies Who Lunch," which evinces a hearty disgust with pretense...
...finally filled him with boredom, a boredom with society that festered even as he wrote the Marilyn Monroe books and The Executioner's Song. A desire to get the heavyweight crown for imagination was probably not the only thing that drove him to Egypt. Disaffection and disgust could well have had a lot to do with it. Mailer may have imagination, despite this disaster, for a big book. He certainly has talents in abundance which could be put to more useful service. One can only hope he will come home to use them...
...shall show this deceitful small animal breeder, this unfathomable little penny pincher with his lust for power, what I am really like," from Nov. 11, 1939).* At another point, the diarist related how Storm Trooper Chief Ernest Roehm "lied to me and deceived me," and then displayed his disgust with all his generals by commenting, "I absolutely need a new military command." Only one adviser seems to have earned his respect: Personal Secretary Martin Bormann. "This man Bormann has become indispensable to me," Hitler wrote on March 27, 1945. "If I had five Bormanns, I would not be sitting here...
...outfield starts to vanish in a thickening whiteness. The umpire gets morally confused. He stands with palms upraised, like a supplicant priest, and stares at the fat crystals falling onto his hands. At last, he calls the game, in wonder and disgust...