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...been an NRA member for 20 years. "And I see no reason that hunters need semiautomatics." The organization's take-no-prisoners lobbying techniques have alienated many old supporters. In New Jersey, an NRA counteroffensive backfired when pro-gun legislators felt cornered by panicky gun lobbyists. Lobbyist Rodger Iverson vowed to raise $100 from every one of the state's gun owners to unseat lawmakers who defied him on the assault-weapons ban. During a session of the state legislature last week, a flustered Iverson rose from the spectators' gallery during a speech supporting the law, directed an obscene gesture...
...management-led leveraged buyout in 1987 by Borg-Warner has put tremendous pressure on Burns' middle managers to produce revenue. Former employees say president Rodger Comstock's intimidating management style and the firm's alleged habit of breaking bonus promises have contributed to an exodus of managers, forcing Burns to recruit and train new ones, sometimes at the expense of clients' needs...
American Color: Photographs by Rodger Kingston at the MIT Museum through March...
...those who are aghast at how much money their gardens can absorb, there is some consolation in thinking of it as an investment. "One thing this generation has discovered," says Rodger Duer, vice president of the mammoth Monrovia nurseries in California and Oregon, "is that a nice garden helps sell a house." Considerable seed money has been directed into landscaping, roughly $3 billion last year, $745 million more than the year before. Such expenditures, by some estimates, can boost the value of real estate by 7% to 15%. Young anglophiles hope that a wanton English garden with piles...
Directly following "Horses," "Live in Peace" is a lot like the cliched rock-ballads mourning Vietnam, disillusionment, and what square folks call "the '60s scene." Unlike banalities like Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69", though, "Peace" succeeds on the sincerity of Rodger's voice, as though the singer had gone through Viet Nam himself. Also Page makes his long awaited appearance: a clear long solo, something Page forgot during the Firm's '85 tour, comes slicing through here...