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...political veterans recall Tom Dewey's blurting into an open mike when his train lurched backward that he must have "a lunatic engineer." The New York Times's Scotty Reston ended his account of that particular incident with this line: "And then the train took off with a jerk...
...partly a knee-jerk reaction to higher rates. But equally important is the massive portfolio shift from old-economy stocks to new-economy stocks that I wrote about last week. Investors are dumping anything that hasn't done well to chase high-flying tech stocks. Financial-services mutual funds are getting hit with redemptions; fund managers are selling bank stocks to pay off departing shareholders...
...similarly unjust to provide opportunities for leaves of absence, flextime and telecommuting exclusively on the basis of parental status and on the assumption that the concerns of parents are inherently more deserving than those of the childless. And most intelligent readers will share her revulsion at the knee-jerk family-fawning rhetoric of politicians on the left and the right...
...knee-jerk party Republican," Freimann said. "We can cater to Republican establishment or we can search for the best ideas...
...When you do come in [to the office] you feel like a jerk," Gusmorino said. "[Executive] board should be doing office hours. They're the ones who can do them right...