Word: lande
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...easy either. Perot spent more than $60 million of his own money on his race for the presidency. He had tens of thousands of volunteers collecting more than 1.5 million signatures across the land. Powell's friends assert blandly that "money would be no problem." One former Pentagon official who now works in corporate America boasts, "I could raise $50 million in one month just from the ceos I know." Says another supporter: "There'd be stories about people sending in nickels, dimes and quarters just to help out, but you'll get all the big money you want...
Those specters will probably push the two sides to a solution--this time. But other flash points abound. Already there are bitter disputes about cargo flights over the Pacific, complete with threats not to let each other's planes land, and an Eastman Kodak demand that Washington punish Japan for a supposed conspiracy that limits Kodak's sales of camera film there. The squabbling may boil over into global politics: Japan has announced that it will not join the U.S. in refusing to buy oil from Iran...
This is the flip side of Vice President Al Gore's vision of an information superhighway linking every school and library in the land. When the kids are plugged in, will they be exposed to the seamiest sides of human sexuality? Will they fall prey to child molesters hanging out in electronic chat rooms...
When Capitol Hill revolutionaries vow to lift millions of Americans off the dole and into the work force, this is where they would land first, among the more than 10 million Americans who hover one rung above welfare on the nation's "ladder of opportunity." These are people who tiptoe between paychecks and have no savings, who ride the bus to the discount stores, who sell their plasma until their veins scar, who don't bother to clip coupons for Cheerios because the generic version is still cheaper, and who can be wiped out by even a minor medical problem...
...might have put it to soothe the civil libertarians: An anti-flag-burning amendment is not a problem precisely because no one is much tempted to burn flags. A prohibition on flag burning should rest as lightly on the land as, say, a law forbidding the eating of caterpillars with cream cheese. Representative Nadler's worries about the separation of church and state can similarly be put to rest. It would be one thing if Congress were trying to establish a genuine religion, requiring, for example, that one pray to the President or the Speaker of the House...