Word: rumoring
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...Each rumor sends a shock wave through Washington. Veterans' groups protested when stories appeared suggesting that their hospital benefits would be cut. Government employees cried out when it was reported that their pension increases would be modified downward. Farm lobbies screamed over the possibility that subsidies would be hacked. Education groups rallied against the hint that Reagan would try again to eliminate the Department of Education. "The best thing to do," declared a member of the Business Roundtable, "is pull up a chair and watch the poker game." It is some game...
...also had troubles with the rumor mills. The company was badly stung last year when its new PCjr could not live up to expectations. Computer Retail News, a trade tabloid, now reports that a new version of IBM's popular PC may be released within the next month...
...book titled Up in Class, was so struck by the black-tie yuppies' dinner with no servants in attendance. "Everything I can see in the way of new manners is very ersatz and copied, very nostalgic for something they've gotten from old movies, from some hopeful rumor of a more distinguished period in which to live," says Hamilton. "They're just dressing up. They all love suspenders, art deco, fragments of an earlier grandeur, and that's the new conservatism. Reagan isn't the cause but just another symptom of the urge to find...
...Rumor has it that Hames Q. Wilson. Shattuck Professor of Government and one of the country's foremost experts on law and order, accepted part-time tenure at the University of California at Los Angeles because of a longtime affinity for scuba-diving...
Birnbach (Brown '78) bases her insights on more than rumor; she visited every campus in the book. Ducking into bars, attending the odd class, she sought students, professors and administrators, and distributed nine-page questionnaires. "I stayed in dorms," she declares in the tone of a war correspondent. "I ate cafeteria food every...