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...taxed to help with the problems in Philadelphia." Reagan failed to mention that while these cities are being taxed and then granted federal dollars, the federal government is also collecting revenues from affluent suburbs surrounding them and from relatively well-to-do regions like the Southwest. He overlooked the raison d'etre of a national urban program--to funnel tax revenues from affluent, non-urban communities into poverty-stricken inner cities...
...Destiny, the region was regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison d'être of Central America in the minds of most Americans, who saw the "banana republics" as a comic-opera fiefdom for U.S. commerce...
...supermarket ads on the financial pages. And countless "women's" magazines like Good Housekeeping and the Ladies Home Journal would simply cease to exist if women no longer centered their lives around fashion, food, and babies. As for television, daytime T.V. would suffer horribly, family sitcoms would lose their raison d'etre, and Johnny Carson would lose his major source of T's and A's if women could no longer appear as the emotional, frivolous, and charming creatures that they were. Even the news programs would suffer, for how could wars be fought if there were...
...raison d'etre of the HIID was its broad appeal to many disciplines, its determination to draw on the wealth of knowledge of the entire University, not just the Economics Department...
...time, he attributed his action to a desire to pay more attention to his three sons. More likely, Quebec provincial Liberals convinced him his usefulness had expired. The Quebec Liberals triumphed in a handful of crucial by-elections, demonstrating a trend away from separatist sentiment. Trudeau's political raison d'etre, national unity, had faded; his Quebec advisers felt capable of repairing disunity themselves...