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...Love Stories" was close to the last gasp of the love genre for mainstream comics, and consequently the last gasp of mainstream's overt attempts at marketing to a female audience. In the 1950s there were tens of romance titles. By the early '70s there were a handful, and now there are none. This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers...
...suppliers are basically ignoring the state's terms, and suddenly Davis was sending out weary signals that any bids received would be treated simply as initial proposals. Analysts expect the price caps and starry-eyed terms to go out the window, which would leave the state of California paying - gasp! - market prices for power. Leaving Davis the political Hobson's choice whether to charge Californians for the juice as taxpayers or consumers...
...momentary advantage proved to be Providence's last gasp...
...There are, of course, vehement objections to the far-reaching order, which many see as the President's bid to hijack the legacy created by Teddy Roosevelt's use of similar executive orders at the turn of the century. Others accuse the President of last-gasp politicking in an attempt to boost his own profile on way or another - if the floundering Mideast peace talks won't give cement his legacy, critics gripe, perhaps he thinks this move will...
...thrust of the plan is rather odious from a free-marketeers' perspective. Canada employs socialized medicine to provide U.S.-made medicines at lower prices. America's free-market system, which makes drug companies (gasp!) profitable, also motivates them to develop the blockbuster drugs that Americans are so sick of paying market prices for. The plan would try for the best of both worlds, using Canada's socialized medicine as an end-run around U.S. pricing - and screwing U.S. drug-companies out of their profit margins in the process...