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However, most lawmakers conceded the blueprint would fail to meet the $108 billion deficit target of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law. Democrats argued it did more to cut red ink than any other option, including the president...
...suit, Wang chided officials for using public funds for "lavish dinner parties and gifts" and for "blindly pursuing the modernization of office facilities." Thanks in part to such extravagances, Wang said, the government ran a $1.9 billion budget deficit in 1986 and can expect $2.2 billion in red ink this year. Planning Commission Minister Song Ping took up the theme: "Financial and economic discipline has grown lax everywhere." Song's solution: "Simple living, hard struggle and industry and thrift...
Before college, even papers were a physical experience--ink smearing under my dragging hand, thumb cramping, tossing paper basketballs. Now it's efficient electronic blips and whirring magnetic fields, all hanging on the precarious edge of malfunction and evaporation...
WHAT OUR "liberal education" lacks is tactile experiences. Our schooling enforces the classic mind-body split; there is no effort to integrate the two, through craft or application. All our mental activity, focused on two-dimensional ink and paper, leaves the body stranded...
...know toutes les choses 'bout Cay-john food. I only live dere one, deux years, in N'Orleans, down by dey bay-you. But I eat as much as dey next jeune homme, and I t'ink I can spot dey gen'win article. (And sans doute, dey gen'win article can spot me! . . all mes freres Cay-johns reading dis story, shakin' yo' head, sayin', "C'est qui, cet imposteur?") So I go to dis Border Cafe, take a coupla friends, and I wait in line, you know, ha'f hour or so, and lemme tell you what...