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...fair, Bush's team ignores some polls. The public is hardly clamoring for his $1.6 trillion tax cut, but Bush, unlike many of his fellow Republicans, keeps pushing it. And while focus groups fell hard for the infamous, nonrun G.O.P. attack ad featuring a video clip of Gore insisting that Clinton has never lied, Bush killed it on the grounds that it was deceptive. As Bush aides are quick to point out, the Gore campaign far outspends them on polling ($1.25 million to $690,000 this year). But those figures obscure the fact that much of the data Bush uses...
...their findings, black lingerie is so scarce that salespeople are tired of saying "no" to repeated demands. Supposedly black slips and panties delivered to GUM are only dirty brown. Why are lace trimmings so shoddy? Not enough lace or lacemaking machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find...
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