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...pin: what you sign be-yills with...
This is a main reason, Sunbelter Reagan tells the delegates, that he is the man who can defeat Carter. Reagan is eager to debate the Georgian; he believes he can expose Carter as a straddler on the issues. "Carter is brilliantly clever at obscuring," says Reagan. "When you really pin him down, he is not much different from Hubert Humphrey, just a quieter version. Carter has told us he's going to balance the budget. I want to price out that Democratic platform and see what all those promises are going to cost. I'll uncover...
Like Conyers, I came to the ADA meeting in search of liberals, wondering about their demise, and trying to pin down a thesis that they were the big losers at Convention '76. And as with Conyers, it didn't take me long to realize that the liberals were indeed...
...love or, as was the case with Washington's Rosemary Byrnes, bugs have been close to the heart. "Several years ago in Mexico," she says, "I used to wear a live bug about two inches long with rhinestones on its back and a gold chain attached to a pin. I delighted in watching the expressions on people's faces when the normally quiet bug began to move on my shirt...
...exactly double the cost of three months ago (1 shilling 3 pence, v. 2 shillings 6 pence per pound). And tavern keepers throughout the Colonies are bitterly protesting the intoxicated prices of West Indian rum, now running as much as 110 percent higher than last whiter. Even the humble pin is no longer humble in cost. A woman in Braintree, Massachusetts, complains: "The cry for pins is so great that what I used to buy for 7 shillings and 6 pence are now 20 shillings-and not to be had for that." If current trends continue, prices will jump...