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...regulation is a primary reason why the average annual increase in U.S. productivity slowed from 3% between 1948 and 1966 to 2% since then. Gerald Ford's White House figured that the price of regulation?the cost of bureaucracy along with declining productivity?takes $2,000 out of the pocket of the typical American family each year, a larger sum than is collected in federal income taxes...
...went to a Bible study group with my wife. It was just a Bible study, but it angered me. I thought, 'These people talk like they have God in their hip pocket.' But I went eight Wednesdays in a row. The last Wednesday evening, while everyone was praying, I got down on my knees and gave my life to the Lord and I have never been the same since. It was an emotional experience, but it hasn 't passed. That was nine years...
...nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...
...Standard." Another time, "my wooden propeller threw its sheet-metal tipping on a southbound mail flight from Chicago." Again, "my DH throttle mechanism broke and closed a hundred feet above ground over Illinois." The only lighting equipment his planes had in those days consisted of "a pocket flashlight (pilot furnished) and a compass light attached to a button on the end of the stick...
Sadat emphasized that he was ready to talk substance with Begin, "ready to discuss everything." He also disclosed that he had in his pocket some concrete proposals to make to Begin, but would not say what they were. Once or twice during the conversation, Sadat talked just a wee bit tough. "If they choose to start anything," he said, "I am ready for it." Another time, he warned: "If they don't heed the real facts in the area, they must meet the consequences." He pointedly mentioned that the second Sinai disengagement agreement expires next October...