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...Said he: "The President has a terminal case of meekness." The Harris poll reflected this view in its latest measurement of Carter's popular standing. Only 36% of those surveyed gave the President an overall favorable rating. When he goes to California this week in an effort to drum up support, Carter will find some Democrats openly hostile. Not only are the $1,000-a-plate tickets for the Democratic National Committee dinner moving slowly, but some onetime Carter supporters have formed a group called Democrats for Change, 1980, and are staging a rival dinner. Says one of them...
Partners at one New York City law firm earn an average of more than $350,000 a year. Prominent attorneys in Atlanta are under federal investigation. Lawyer-agents drum up business at the Senior Bowl. Defections from a Chicago firm, a partner purge in New York. And how much will Bakke's lawyer be paid anyway...
...year by 1985, about half of which would come from Washington. To offset a new drain on the Treasury, the commission proposes that commercial broadcasters be charged between $150 million and $200 million for the right to use the public air waves. Local stations would be expected to drum up $1.50 for each $1 that they received from the Government...
...that they seem to want to. The rest of the first side of the album with songs like "Bad Brain" and "It's a Long Way Back" fit well into standard punk molds: perfect 4/4 time, straight drum beat and guitar lines with the subtlety of a jack hammer, or a seal-clubbing expedition...
Other songs on the album go the opposite way--tones and squeals ornament the chillier lyrics about sanitized society. On "Green Shirt," an obstinate bass pulse and the rat-tat-tat of a machine gun drum hover behind these lyrics...