Word: posts
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...adequate word and for whose well-being we can never have enough concern. Sitting monarchs and Presidents, for example. Two weeks ago Ronald Reagan incurred a "small, red bump" on his eyelid (caused by a contact lens). You could read about it on page 3 of the Washington Post. A classic of the genre is an item that ran in the New York Times a couple of years ago: GLASS CUTS KISSINGER'S NOSE. Only a nick really, and he'd been out of power for nine years...
...apparent solution to this age-old problem is now at hand. General Foods has introduced new packaging for two of its Post cereals, Natural Raisin Bran and Natural Bran Flakes. The products are enclosed in easy-to-open, easy-to- reseal plastic bags that are similar to the popular Ziploc items...
...after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...
...have always been tensions between New York and the capital's reporters. "Creative friction is unavoidable," he says. Some Times staffers speculate that Frankel is particularly sensitive about the paper's coverage of the current scandal because he headed the bureau during the early days of Watergate, when the Post regularly beat the Times...
Dukakis believes he has found an answer to the Democratic Party's desperate search for a post-New Deal ideology: liberalism on the cheap. He offers the traditional vision of "economic opportunity" and "full employment." The difference is that Dukakis insists that these goals can be achieved largely by rechanneling existing federal resources. As a candidate, he resists putting price tags on programs: "I don't think you have to prepare a budget, for God's sake." But even Dukakis' showcase proposal -- a regional-development fund that he mentions in almost every speech -- would cost just $500 million a year...