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...domestic and foreign owners. Instead of tying up their resources in Government IOUs, investors would have to funnel their assets into private industry. This would promote economic growth. The process, says Moynihan, "will put the federal budget back in the black, pay off the privately held government debt, jump-start the savings rate and guarantee the Social Security trust funds for half a century and more...
...herald the "new ball game" he had been predicting. But Gore wasn't smiling when he talked to Martin later. Richard Gephardt was scoring a solid second, undermining Gore's risky gambit of skirting the early contests. Instead of facing two liberal Yankees on Super Tuesday, Gore must now jump-start against a Border State moderate with Southern appeal. "Gephardt has an anti-foreign, anti- Establishment pitch -- a send-'em-a-message message," says Political Consultant Carter Eskew, a friend of Gore's. "That and the populism of resentment are likely to do well in a part of the country...
...contemporary standards, the Montessori parents are relatively easygoing. But thousands of other mothers and fathers are caught up in a phenomenon that educational psychologists call "hot-housing," trying to jump-start tiny students toward success. Since 1970, enrollment in early programs, both private and public, has surged from 4,104,000 to more than 6 million. Judging by the parental push, the trend will accelerate: at New York City's public Hunter College Elementary School, where two requisites for entry are a 135 IQ and a parental essay on the child, 1,500 applications pour in each year...
...down Madison Avenue, cocaine has become almost a currency in advertising agencies. Coke for models, photographers and artists is buried in budgets. Copywriters use cocaine to jump-start their creative juices. Independent producers supply it to agency representatives on location. In a survey of 300 advertising directors conducted by Advertising Age magazine in August, 45 reported cases in which cocaine had been used as under-the- counter compensation. Sometimes, ad agency employees hire production companies to make commercials only if the firms offer bribes of cocaine...
After three strangers stopped and helped him jump-start his car, they demanded $10. When he offered only $5, one of the men opened fire. No arrest...