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...experts quickly admitted might be too large by half. Either way, a good chunk of the savings -- about $10 billion -- would be achieved through Vice President Al Gore's plans for "reinventing government" and reducing its cost. Gingerly picking through programs like the much ridiculed support payments for mohair-goat herders would yield an additional $1 or $2 billion...
Sometime a few years ago, movie stars and urbane, goat-cheese-and-endive types discovered bowling alleys, pool halls, tattoos, Harley Davidsons, diners and restaurants that looked like diners but served goat cheese and endive. All of a sudden the pastimes, artifacts and style of low-rent America, in all their glorious white-trashiness, had become chic. The fashion continues to flourish...
...rural South--I grew up on a farm and I come from a whole family of farmers. We moved into town when I grew older but we used to live in an old farmhouse with a wood-burning stove. We kept pigs and chickens. We had a goat too but eventually my dad killed...
When only a handful of tutors attended the annual Dunster goat roast, Power said the tutors were "running scared...
...Bill Clinton seeks to understand his quick transit from hero to goat (and hopefully back to hero) -- the roller-coaster common to the modern presidency -- this assessment from a 1983 New York Times editorial has become a totem among senior Administration officials. "Reagan was a goner, right?" says a Clinton adviser. "But then the business cycle took an upturn, and he won big a year later. Reagan's ups and downs remind us to take the long view. Bill Clinton won't be dead until he's laid out with his sax." It's simple, the President himself explained privately...