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...Republicans are fretting over that ancient Freudian riddle--What do women want?--while aiming programs at them called "A Seat at the Table" (haven't they noticed many women are sitting there already?), or designing cards with "Twelve Important Messages for Women" that can "fit in a man's pocket and a woman's purse," in the words of one G.O.P. operative. Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation to snag women in this election. But mostly the Democrats are smirking because they're pretty sure that whatever women want, or will want in November, it doesn't rhyme with...
...mountain in Hope, Idaho, in 1994. He had died of a heart attack at age 65, and now his corpulent, embalmed body was wedged into the front seat of a brown 1940 Packard coupe. There was a dollar and a deck of cards in his pocket, a bottle of 1931 Chianti beside him and the ashes of his dog Smash in the back. He was set for the afterlife. To the whine of bagpipes, the Packard, steered by his widow Nancy Reddin Kienholz, rolled like a funeral barge into the big hole. All in all, it was the most Egyptian...
...When he gets his salary he puts it in his breast pocket, and since I iron his suits, I take it. If the salary is not in his pocket, he may have spent it on holiday or birthday presents. I never ask." --Naina Yeltsin, on husband Boris, President of Russia...
...they said would lower prices of many goods and services by cutting the insurance and litigation costs of manufacturers. As Clinton vetoed the measure, Bob Dole cried foul and charged that the President, whose campaign received $2.5 million dollars from lawyers and law firms last year, was in the pocket of the trial lawyers that opposed the bill. Noting that corporations and organizations supporting the bill pumped almost $6 million last year into the war chests of Congressional supporters, Democrats retorted that Republicans merely representing big business. "Both sides offer arguments of principle to justify their positions," says TIME...
...cutthroat duel to the death," says John Connor, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "The ultimate weapon, steep price cuts, is rarely used." That has kept profit margins high. Ronald Cotterill, director of the Food Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut, estimates that cereal firms pocket an average of 17% of their sales as operating income, vs. 7% to 8% for the food industry as a whole...