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...early days of the century, when typewriters were upright and competition was downright dirty. American newspapers used to rake each other's muck with all the verve they now expend on erring politicians. These days most papers observe an unwritten rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused...
Reporters once looked forward to the day when they could poke around in the political skeleton closet of fundraising. Now that they've been given the opportunity, few have exercised it, succumbing to the old political trick of burying an investigator under a mass of data too big and diffuse to sort through. But only when the reporters and their editors take advantage of the disclosure laws--and take their notebooks and calculators into the campaign finance office--will there be any hope of sparking enough public outrage to spur the recalcitrant legislature into action. Contributors Against the Bottle Bill...
...explained that "a pig in a poke" is a 16th century expression meaning an unknown quantity...
Lynn, who was also in Boston to speak at a Republican fund-raiser and to talk about the administration's programs with newspaper editors in Boston, said that "the voters face a decision between the president--an honest man with very specific programs--and Carter, a pig in a poke...
Though Beteta was careful to avoid saying so, the move amounts to a massive devaluation. By week's end the exchange rate sank below 20 pesos to the dollar. That might lure many more American tourists to sample the delights of Acapulco or poke around the Aztec ruins near Mexico City, since their dollars will buy more in Mexico. But it will also hurt the many other Americans who have poured investment money into Mexico, seeking interest rates of 12% or more...