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According to Doutre, a particularly successful advertising campaign in the midsixties recounted the plight of the mythical American Federation of Gypsies as they sought in vain to get Salada to stop putting fortunes on their tea bags. As the story in the ad went, the Tag Lines were driving the gypsies out of business...
...Bean-Bayog for "departing from accepted standards of medical practice" in her treatment of Lozano, but it came to no conclusion about the charge of sexual misconduct. Pending further hearings, the board decided to allow the doctor to continue to see patients under the supervision of another psychiatrist. The plight of this respected therapist caught up in one of the great hazards of her profession has stirred sympathy within the Boston psychiatric community. "There is a strong tension within us that we should be able to heal, comfort and cure terribly troubled people -- particularly gifted, young people," says one therapist...
...minor part of his economic program. By constantly attacking the tax cut, Clinton said, Tsongas was appealing to upscale elitists -- a group, he pointedly noted, that includes the editorial writers who have endorsed his rival. Constant carping against the middle-class tax reduction makes Tsongas seem indifferent to the plight of the middle class. Yet many voters are likely to see the truth in Tsongas' assertion that "if you wish to live well, you must produce well...
...collaborators, with everything from the chorus of straight lines that arose from the studio audience whenever he complained about the weather ("How hot was it?") to his ubiquitous savers -- the ad libs meant to salvage jokes that have bombed. The subtext of Carson's comedy is always his own plight: How foolish, he says to the audience, to be a grown man earning a living trying to make people laugh...
Campaigning in the oil patch last week, President Bush responded to the plight -- and political anger -- of natural-gas producers by taking steps to bolster demand. He removed regulatory barriers that have hampered utilities from converting power plants fueled by coal and oil to natural gas. At the same time, Bush lessened restrictions on the sale of compressed natural gas for cars and other vehicles. In Washington, Energy Secretary James Watkins declared, "The worst thing we could do is allow our oil and gas industries to decline the way we have...