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Maybe Gephardt should send Mayor Giuliani. Gingrich attacked New York City, calling it a corrupt, over-unionized drain on the rest of the country. New York City Mayor Giuliani responded that while his city sends $9 billion more to Washington than it gets back in federal spending, Georgia gets $1 billion more than it pays in taxes. Giuliani added that Gingrich's own congressional district is a leading recipient of federal pork...
...woman in those years. We watch her win struggles, and we glimpse the attitudes towards working mothers in an office dominated by women. "I might have stayed at home. But if I had, I would have been unhappy, and not simply because a college education was going down a drain. To live in New York, to be part of New York, I had to work." And work she did, in one of the few atmospheres that accepted pregnant women, "a pregnant editor was a common place at mademoiselle trundling her belly in and out of meetings, saving up her vacation...
...profit arts, local and national, support 1.3 million jobs, yield $37 billion a year in economic activity and return $3.4 billion a year to the federal treasury through tax--some 20 times the budget of the nea. It is ludicrous to pretend that the NEA is a drain on the American purse...
...have raised are the tactics they have been using to get them. As though the natural urge of money to follow power were not enough, the G.O.P. leaders have set about stiffening the rules of influence peddling. The goal is not only to keep their coffers full but to drain the opposition's as well...
...think of him as, let's see, Ishmael. No. Fred Ishmael? Nah. But any other way lies madness, a dizzy spiraling down lunacy's drain. To wit: not far into the novel, while the real Powers is setting up the furniture of a marvelous story, the fictional Powers (who like the real one has written several respectfully received novels, including Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance and The Gold Bug Variations), announces that he is finished with novel writing, nauseated to the very soul with the idea of creating another scene or character...