Word: patricks
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White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan predicts a new, more vigorous incarnation for social conservatives. "The right-to-life movement is as strong or stronger than ever. The number of gay-rights marchers at various demonstrations has been a fraction of their old strength. The Christians are taking over the Republican Party in Missouri, Washington and Michigan...
...York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who 20 years ago presciently warned of the breakdown of the black ghetto family, rejected the idea that Democratic programs should be blamed for creating a dependency on Government, which aggravated the underclass crisis. "It has become a belief bordering on prejudice," he said, "that the social ills of the present are the consequence of misguided Democratic social policies of the past two generations. None hold to this belief more guiltily, if furtively, than the Democrats." His party, Moynihan observed, is in "worse shape nationally than since the aftermath of the Civil War." He urged...
...Dressing Up. When Michael Scott Kirshe married Suzanne Patrick on May 24 in Sudbury, Mass., he and his four ushers were suited up in pastel tuxes by Miami Vice for After Six. Scott even gave his ushers Ray-Ban Wayfarers to complete the image. But, of course, no one is much interested in the bridegroom's plumage. This is the bride's day to be resplendent, assuming that the unthinkable has not happened, and her gown has not arrived late. Philip Youtie offers a stirring evocation of the pressures under which he and all his colleagues labor: "The ambulance...
This vision, too, may be a little far-fetched. Still, says Patrick Gordon, a communications expert at the Yankee Group, the Boston-based high-tech research firm, "the integrated services digital network is not a blue sky, Buck Rogers fantasy. It's already...
Sensing an issue ready for exploitation, House Democrats, led by Speaker Tip O'Neill, crafted a bill that would mandate retaliatory action against any major trading partner of the U.S. that achieves an "excessive trade surplus" through what are perceived as unfair means. Said White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan: "It's definitely going to help some Democrats on a local basis...