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...looks good on the dashboard of your truck as you pull away from the lot. A mile from your girlfriend's house you stop at a ditch to wash your bloody head. When you look up you see your girl across the water drinking tequila, a broken fishing pole in her hand. "Darlin'!" you cry. "I've come to take can't never leave each other...
...Mallory says he wants to ditch Eileen, and I believe he means it. If he really wants to provide a new mother for Michael and if that makes for a solid loving family, I'll be glad to see it happen. Eileen certainly isn't easy to get to. I make appointments with her at the center, but she rarely shows up. She has complications of her own, and I wish we could begin to see how they impinge on her relationship with both Mallory and Michael. We call this the Center for Family Life because we believe in families...
...likely to aggravate the global petroleum surplus. "This collapse occurred in anticipation of trouble," said Constantine Fliakos, who follows the oil industry for Merrill Lynch. "You can imagine what will happen when the real flooding of an already glutted market begins." A price war would be a risky, last-ditch change in strategy for OPEC, which has been floundering in an ocean of crude. For the past four years OPEC has tried to shore up prices by limiting the worldwide oversupply. The cartel squeezed its output from a peak of nearly 32 million bbls. per day in 1979 to just...
Standing next to an open sewage ditch, Falwell talked about his visit. "It's people like this we're fighting to save from Godless Communism. These people are poor, but they're also proud. They don't want handouts. They don't want education for their children if it has to come from progressive taxation." He added, "I would support anything the United States could do and would do to prevent the Republic of the Phillippines from falling to the Communists. It's time for us to stop bellyaching and arm these Phillippine freedom fighters with nuclear weapons...
...dwell on or even acknowledge the problems that are headed his way, Reagan seems to derail a lot of them. As another occupant of the Oval Office, Calvin Coolidge, said, "If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." Coolidge's portrait still hangs in the Cabinet Room for daily inspiration...