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Brown is what bettors would call a mortal lock to win the Democratic nomination. The latest Field poll has the Governor running about 45 points ahead of his nearest rival, Novelist Gore Vidal, 56, who refers to Brown as "Lord of the Flies"-a snide reference to last summer's Mediterranean fruit-fly crisis. At the moment, Brown trails all three top prospective G.O.P. opponents in the polls. However, the Governor has a $2 million campaign fund and is a formidable vote getter when he steers clear of moonbeam topics, a mistake he makes far less often than...
...house he had to share with three mischievous younger sisters, Steven would take the standard boy's revenge: lock them in the closet and then throw in the thing they feared most. "He used to scare the hell out of them," Leah says. "When they were going to sleep, he would creep under their window and whisper, 'I'm the moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under...
...prematurely. Both on the eve of Ground Zero's kickoff and during the week, the President felt obliged to express his sympathy with the fundamental fears of the participants. Yet he repeated his objection to an immediate freeze on nuclear weaponry; such an agreement, he argued, would simply lock in a supposed Soviet missile advantage...
...Maybe we'll end up admitting that we're doing exactly what we have been doing all the time without admitting it--when a guy gets convicted of doing something serious, nobody's figured out how to give him the proper outlook on life. So we will lock him up for a good long time with a bunch of rats just as vicious as he is, and see if by the time he gets out he's lost interest in raising hell." Which seems to be about how it works...
...paying 14% or 15% interest to borrow money for 30 years through a bond issue, they have been spending the same amount to get funds for only 90 days, and then renewing those loans every three months. Corporations have adopted such strategies because they do not want to lock themselves into paying the current interest rates for the next 30 years...