Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forbes is pushing a pure flat tax, with a rate of 17% and the elimination of all deductions, but that is proving too severe for most of the rest of the field. G.O.P. candidates Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan back the general idea but say the mortgage-interest and charitable-donation deductions are too popular to end. Dole and Lamar Alexander have been cagier about how flat and how free of exceptions their plans would be. Forbes sneers at his rivals, "They are responding to a poll rather than to conviction." But their views show a respect for recent history...
...lavished $1.1 million to spread his message, more than double the combined media expenditures of his rivals. A few weeks ago, neither the Gramm nor Dole camps believed Forbes could turn out significant numbers of supporters at the time-consuming caucuses. Now they are not so sure. As Pat Buchanan told TIME, "[Forbes] is softening up Dole, he's draining off Gramm, and he's driven poor Lamar into the nether reaches...
...LEVI'S 501S: "PRAGUE" This black-and-white TV spot is as artfully shot as it is wittily scripted. A hip ex-pat putters about the city in a tiny old auto only to emerge in his boxers. Where are his 501 jeans? "In Prague," he declares, "you can trade them...
Lewis was clearly pleased with what he considers a low student turnout at the rally. It has been said that the human body was ingeniously designed so that we could neither pat ourselves on the back nor kick ourselves in the ass too easily. Through extensive practice, the Dean Lewis whom students know has gotten very good at patting himself on the back. But even a meager 750 people can deliver a walloping kick to the administration's ass. --David C. Maier...
...OUTRAGED AT YOUR PRINTING OF Keillor's piece on Thanksgiving. I almost choked to death while eating my jellied cranberry sauce. Garrison cooked a delightful stuffing of philosophical musings, corn-pone anecdotes and downright slapstick jokes. A milestone hoot. PAT STEPHENSON Prairie Village, Kansas