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Debt doesn't scare Kerkorian. There is always something you can sell to pay it off. After he bought MGM in 1969, he sold off the studio's choicest assets, from its immense library of old films to warehouses filled with props and other paraphernalia. Later he added United Artists, but for him it has always been the deal, not the business. In one famous Ping-Ponging transaction, he sold MGM/UA to Ted Turner for $1.5 billion in 1986, then bought back everything but the film library for less than $800 million, and then sold it all again...
...budget amendment breezed through in two days, could meet death at an early age in the Senate. And for once Democratic leaders who had been struggling to resist the Republicans were able to frame an issue their way, even if they had to resort to the oldest liberal scare tactic. Against the irresistible force of budget-balancing sentiment they placed the immovable object of Social Security's sanctity...
...most important issues for religious citizens, namely government funding, free religious speech by private individuals, and equality,'' says Steven McFarland, an Episcopal lawyer who runs the Center for Law and Religious Freedom, a 20-year-old Christian-advocacy organization. But he has harsh words for some of the scare tactics used by some of the more militant Christian-law groups. "We don't need a Christian ACLU," he says. "The ACLU gets most of its results from bluster, saber rattling and intimidation. Any organization that claims to serve a God of truth should not be about any of that business...
...office," she answers, responding to the hundreds of favor seekers who have called since last November's election, unaware that the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee lost. Panzke, who has worked for Rostenkowski for 27 years, theorizes that voters only wanted to give him a scare: "I don't think anyone thought he'd really lose." Ring! A citizen is seeking help about a park. "You've got to do this," he insists. "I pay your salary...
Deep inside each consensus-building, big-tent Republican running for President lies the awful knowledge that one false step into the swamp of abortion politics can drown you. Say anything but that you are pro-life in the primaries and you will lose the nomination, but scare the pro-choicers and you may lose the election. So what's a candidate to do? Robert Dole, Phil Gramm and Lamar Alexander all claim the pro-life label, but not the mantle. They wrinkle their noses, say they personally don't like abortion-as if a personal preference substitutes for a clear...