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...platform on the sensitive subject of tax increases. Meeting in Dallas last week, the party's platform subcommittee on economic policy began its deliberations with a staff-written version blessed by the White House. The draft declared that Republicans "oppose any attempts to increase taxes which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans...
...conservative version, the party would "oppose any attempts to increase taxes, which would harm the recovery and reverse the trend to restoring control of the economy to individual Americans." Punctuated that way, the plank would hold all tax hikes to be harmful. If necessary, proclaimed Weber, "we'll take that comma to the floor-and I'm only half joking...
...boasted that victorious Rumanians had "dedicated" their victories to their President, or were inspired by this month's 40th anniversary of Rumania's liberation from fascism. Moreover, with an ailing economy and a mountain of foreign debt, most of it owed to the West, there was no harm in projecting Rumania in the U.S. as a friendly and unorthodox Communist state worthy of special Western treatment...
...with lawyers, with family, with her flack. Last Monday, with a trace of hard dignity and without a tear, Vanessa Williams announced that she would step down. "I wish I could retain my title," she said, but she mentioned "potential harm to the pageant and the deep, deep division that a bitter fight may cause" as reasons that she could not. So Williams became not only the first black Miss America but the first ever to abdicate. The 63-year-old pageant, beamed live from Atlantic City to more than 50 million television viewers (NBC pays...
...means, read the grocery list for the athletes. Pork, 63,700 Ibs.; beef, 206,555 Ibs.; 70,000 dozen eggs. (You do deliver?) You say that if someone laid those eggs end to end they'd stretch for 25 miles? One pooped chicken. That's a joke, son. No harm, no foul...