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...favored son of the Republican Party and has all the money to prove it. Consequently, he pulled off a huge media blitz against competitor Senator Robert Dole, including a half hour live talkshow. His televised attack on Dole's votes for tax increases and support for an oil import fee signal a healthy diversion from character attacks to policy criticism. His subsequent victory in New Hampshire was essential to halting Dole's post-Iowa momentum...
After his plane touched down at Denver's Stapleton airport last month, Skier Jeff Blumenfeld hurried to the Avis desk and signed up for a rental car at the daily fee of $44. It seemed like an attractive price; for his four-day trip, the New York City executive figured he would pay around $180. But Blumenfeld's final bill came to a more daunting $253.30. Says he: "You go to a rental-car agency, and you don't know what it's going to cost you. They nickel and dime you to death...
...only in the matter of cherished stereotype that this serious-minded innkeeper's son comes up lacking. In public fancy, ski racers, and especially downhillers, are barbarians, berserkers, wearers of iron hats with cow horns sticking out of them. Pirmin, from a minor resort town near Saas-Fee (which is a minor resort near Zermatt), is the sort of nice young man your mother wants your sister to meet. He does not look as if he eats nails. He has curly, reddish-blond hair, an elf's pointy nose and a shy, boyish grin, behind which is real shyness, behind...
Gephardt's risk has paid off. An Iowa victory gives him a tremendous boost in national media attention. However, his populist image, responsible for his campaign's rejuvenation, may prove unsaleable in New Hampshire. Calls for protectionism and an oil import fee may be popular among the disgruntled residents of the depressed Midwest, but they won't fly with New Hampshire voters...
...bookkeeping. In its search for more money to address student concerns, the Council opted not to disturb any of the $20,000 it budgets for itself. Instead of shifting its budgetary priorities to reflect its social goals, the Council chose to pinch students harder--doubling the term bill fee to $20 per undergraduate...