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...nightfall on the north side of Milwaukee. Telephone calls jammed the switchboards at Jackson headquarters, and contributions poured into the congenitally ill-funded campaign at the rate of $60,000 a day. Small wonder that the populist preacher said with smiling satisfaction, "There is a kind of Jackson-action fever...
...amount of money they bring in as a criterion for promotion. The IRS has an internal regulation prohibiting collection goals, but it is often ignored. On the door of an IRS office in Los Angeles, an agent told Congress, was taped a sign with the rallying cry: SEIZURE FEVER -- CATCH IT. The employee with the best seizure rate in the office was given extra time off as a reward...
...blown, in the absence of any heavier action, into epic battles in a generally desperate attempt to bring heat to the placid proceedings. The short-skirt wrangle was a sure sign that the season was falling into something worse than a crisis. At least a critical condition can mean fever and ferment. This was looking more like fashion stasis. Paris was crucial. And Paris was not burning...
...slow plague of syphilis is one of the smoldering subtexts of Simon's brimming narrative. Prostitutes gave the contagion to their customers, who passed it on to their wives. If women were not rendered barren by the bacterium, there were always the risks of childbirth and puerperal fever. Women were meant to provide heirs and cement profitable agreements through wedlock...
...field featured 23 women, but only a handful delivered memorable routines. America's Jill Trenary offered an elegant performance that placed her fourth. (Caryn Kadavy, the most expressive of the U.S. skaters, was forced to withdraw from the competition with a 103 degrees fever.) The charmer was petite Midori Ito of Japan, only 18, who entranced the audience with her powerhouse jumps and girlish enthusiasm. As she concluded her routine with a gravity-defying triple Lutz, Ito shook her fists triumphantly above her head and burst into unabashed tears of delight. Though she finished fifth, Ito received a standing ovation...