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...other words, get in the habit now. Later, when you have all that capitalist lucre, you'll know where to add the zeroes. This is a classic fundraising technique, practiced by everyone from Harvard to the drug pushers who offer ten year olds free first highs...
...time cut our massive debt." Change in government atmosphere: Washington, now "a place of intrigue and calculation," must be reformed, "so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the people." Finally, some meaningful change in rhetoric. Said Clinton: "It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing" -- not common words from a Democrat. And change "will require sacrifice" -- a word he persistently refused to use during the campaign...
...time to break the bad habit of expectingsomething for nothing, from our government or fromeach other. Let us take more responsibility, notonly for ourselves and our families but for ourcommunities and for our country...
...eating on the subway ($312). The sale of chewing gum was banned last year, and 514 people were convicted of illegally smoking in public. A drumbeat of official publicity regularly enjoins Singapore Man to be more industrious, more courteous, thinner, healthier. Last year the government attacked his habit of arriving fashionably late at Chinese banquets as "a growing problem with wide implications for national productivity...
...PURPLE AND GREEN AND 6 FT. tall, with perfect TV-anchor teeth and bright yellow toenails. He has a doofy chuckle and a bouncy waddle, and when he isn't singing syrupy songs ("I love you/ You love me/ We're a happy family"), he has a habit of exclaiming, "Stuuuupendous!" He gets 10,000 fan letters a week, and his recent tour of America's malls had to be cut short because the frenzied tens of thousands who turned out to catch a glimpse of him created safety hazards...