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...defy assumptions about the social priorities of black Democrats by proposing that the state eliminate, among other things, the Department for Children, the Council on the Status of Women and the Council on Indians. In California, where health and highways are obsessions, Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, is taxing granola bars and raising the cost of registering cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Pragmatism | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...brass and percussion sections in the back of the American Legion Post No. 24 Band from Canton huddled around a cache of "Daly Delights," packages of peanuts, M&Ms and Granola Bars handed out by volunteers working for U.S. hopeful Daniel W. Daly '65, who had won the party's endorsement...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: GOP Takes Center Ring at Convention Circus | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

...granola mix of California may not be representative of an entire nation. But neither is the Iowa or New Hampshire, or, for that matter, Texas or Hawaii. The significance of California is not that it is different, but that it is generously and diversely populated. As with Iowa or New Hampshire, a "no" from California will not kill a candidate, but a "yes" will be a much stronger signal of a candidate's viability...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: The Wild West | 2/27/1990 | See Source »

...afford to buy a house, say they have not encountered overt antagonism so much as occasional turns of a subtle cold shoulder. In their case it has been directed at their North Californian "alternative life-style" preferences such as Zen meditation and organic gardening. "Oh, you guys are so granola!" one staid neighbor told them early on. As a result, they have become gun-shy about admitting their California origins and tend to socialize mostly with other Californians. "The irony is that now I've become antigrowth myself!" Margot Grim says, laughing. "Here I am, a Californian, wishing that other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Californians Keep Out! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...money comes out of their promotion budgets and -- not unreasonably, since their goal is to make money -- they want to be associated with popular, prestigious events. It's no trick to get Universal Widget to underwrite a Renoir show, or one of those PBS nature series (six hours of granola TV, with bugs copulating to Mozart). But try them with newer, more controversial, or more demanding work and watch the faces in the boardroom drop. Corporate is nervous money; it needs the NEA for reassurance as a Good Housekeeping Seal of approval. Our problem, despite conservative rant, is too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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