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...December of last year, President Reagan ran a five-cent-a-gallon increase in the gas tax through a lame duck Congress anxious to melt out of Washington for the Christmas holidays. The tax, which was signed into law on January 6, is designed both to raise more than $5 billion a year to rebuild the nation's crumbling highways and bridges, and to aid mass transportation. Coupled with the rise in the tax on fuel are increases in taxes on truck parts, truck road use, and truck sales. From the point of view of the American Trucking Association...
Rupert Pupkin is neat; his three-piece suit is so sharply pressed you could cut your hand on a crease. Rupert Pupkin is agreeable; encountering the boyish befuddlement with which he sometimes camouflages his essentially persistent, not to say obsessive, nature, frosty receptionists melt down to disarmed motherliness-even though he never has an appointment. Rupert Pupkin is helpful; he will give you his latest and best joke, run errands for you, even come bravely to your rescue in a life-threatening situation. In short, Rupert Pupkin is a national menace...
Quennell was fascinated by Greta Garbo, whose beauty "was at times a burden-a valuable but perishable gift, like a magic snowball, held in the palm of the hand, that is bound to melt away." But he adds: "Beauty to be entirely irresistible should be observed across a gulf." The author has been married five times, in each case to a ravishing beauty...
...class of companies that make steel in what are called minimills: small, low-cost plants that utilize state-of-the-art technology and, in most cases, nonunion labor. These factories contain none of the costly blast furnaces used to transform raw materials into steel. Instead, they take scrap steel, melt it down and reshape it into new forms. The minimills fashion small, specialized steel products rather than huge beams and sheets. Nucor's steel can be found, for example, in reinforcing rods for concrete walls, traffic barricades and lawnmowers...
Even by the standards of the Soviet Union's often inflammatory official daily newspaper, last week's tirade was one for the books. "The dirty snowball of lies and slander now rolling over the pages of the Western press will sooner or later melt under the rays of the truth," Pravda declared. "Only dirt will remain, which will stain for a long time the political reputation of those who were helping to mold that snowball." The target of the unusual vituperation: widespread suspicions in the West that the KGB plotted or abetted or was at least aware...