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...Republican assault on Dukakis' furlough policy had stopped with making these valid points, Democrats and blacks would have no just cause for complaint. But the Republican attack did not stop there. Instead, Bush's handlers tapped into the rich lode of white fear and resentment of blacks that the G.O.P. staked out more than 20 years ago, when the party of Lincoln recast itself as the embodiment of the white backlash. It started with Barry Goldwater railing against Earl Warren's Supreme Court and civil rights legislation. Then, as the long hot summers blazed, Richard Nixon courted voters with...
...bottom of the economic scale or struggling to pursue careers while raising their children or have simply grown restless working for others, women entrepreneurs have become, in the words of the Small Business Committee report, a "gold mine of human capital." That mine has already tapped into a rich lode, and if the Government leads the way in - reducing discrimination against women in business, the gold rush will keep on gathering momentum...
...writers. Through her staff of reporter-researchers, Satterwhite, who became the magazine's eighth research chief in 1984, is the ultimate steward of TIME's accuracy. She is outspokenly proud of her staff's contribution to the magazine. "There is no question," she says, "that research provides a richer lode for our writers to mine and enhance their stories. Fortunately, our reporter-researchers have a voracious appetite for news, are sticklers for detail and love books and libraries, which is where they spend a lot of their time." She adds, "We pride ourselves on our pursuit of accuracy, down...
...will know the voice right away, even if you have never heard it. A backcountry baritone canters along a line of swaying melody, taking it easy, taking everything easy. The prides, the miseries, the dalliances and departures that are the mother lode of country music, all are delved into and delivered up with the sidling grace of an unordained preacher taking the back door into honky-tonk heaven...
...like IKARI Warriors in the Freshman Union," says Hally. "It's just like Rambo, plus people watch and I can put my name up." John M. Campanelli '89, who plays Lode Runner frequently, describes his favorite video sequence where "a little man runs away from other little men and has to pick up a certain amount of money bags to move to the next level. It's the consumate capitalist game...