Word: ll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calculation. In Cabinet meetings, he is often the first to shoot down ideas that won't fly in Congress, as he did when aides suggested buying Democratic support of a capital-gains tax cut with a White House retreat from the campaign pledge not to raise other taxes. "We'll get clobbered for that," Bush said. When pressed on a political question, he has a playful stock reply: "If you're so damned smart, how come you aren't President of the United States...
...care, and I bet thousands of others do too." So I printed it. I discovered 15,000 did care. I like to hang it down the wall. Talk about a compulsion! If I'm a guest in a home and the paper is hung the other way, I'll change it. I know this is crazy, but we all have our areas of nuttiness...
...been divorced, there has always been a man in my life. I enjoy male company enormously, but I like to keep my personal life private, and I've succeeded in doing just that. But I cannot imagine my life without a man. I think when I'm 90 I'll still have a fella...
...crime, as Joey sees it, is the way some banks try to trick their customers. "Look at this!" he'll occasionally shout at me over the phone, as if I could see the checks he's waving. "They look just like regular checks! They've got my name and address preprinted on them, and my account number in magnetic ink at the bottom...
...Real estate in Cambridge is a bad word and I am the spokesman for people who disagree with rent control," Walsh said. "This year of politics is a focus year on rent control. I think you'll see a lot of bitterness in the campaign [for City Council] before it's over...