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...Usually the market is crowded, but today business is as limp as the rotting persimmons on display. I buy carrots at $1.64 per lb., three times the price of their frail cousins at the state store but six times better looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shopper's Day | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...side are about ten "Chapter 1" children -- kids who need special attention. Because the district usually requires that everyone complete first grade before being evaluated as learning disabled, kids who have serious problems often limp through the first two years of school behind their more advanced peers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

State Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge) stood on the State House steps yesterday and refused to limp or quack like the loser of a Democratic primary...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Graham Keeps Running Despite Loss | 10/1/1988 | See Source »

...suburban Chicago and outspoken hardhats who jeered Bush in Portland, Ore. There was little evidence that either group was representative of the electorate. But the TV imagery made Bush appear tough as he whipped out his ancient union card from 1950, while all Dukakis could muster were a few limp appeals ("I hope you would respect my right to speak") that seemed more suited for a Brookline town meeting than a Polish-American banquet hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Phantom Race | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

Crisis time in Rome. Had another government fallen or the lira tumbled? Worse. Thanks to a ruling issued this month by the European Community's Court of Justice, Italy's lasagna may go limp and its fettuccine flaccid. For a nation that eats its pasta al dente, or firm to the tooth, such news is hard to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Hard News To Swallow | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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