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...Communist Manifesto. It recommended tight government control of economic and industrial activities, nationalization of all banks, insurance companies, electric power corporations, and communications companies as well as a far-reaching agrarian reform law that would do away with all large landowners. Embarrassed by the report, Frei tried to shrug it off casually as a meaningless "scrap of paper...
...work one week less a year, enjoy a bigger voice in textbook selection and curriculum changes. They also won a 30-child limit on class size in the first three grades of ghetto schools and a 39-student limit in all other classes. Unhappy school-board members could only shrug their shoulders when asked where most of the $18.7 million for pay raises will come from, nod hopefully toward the state legislature...
...only a "lovely looking amateur, an enthusiastic beginner" who "laid a golden egg." Leading Lady Bouvier compared opening night to having a baby ("You wanted to have it over with"), but Husband Stanislas Radziwill refused to accept fatherhood. "I'm going back to London," he said with a shrug. "She can do what she wants...
What Burack is saying is nothing new. That is how the doctors and pharmacists just shrug off his book. But Random House is certain that the Handbook will be a bestseller. For the first time millions of people will have the information at hand, and even if Senate and state investigations accomplish nothing, there will be public pressure. and that is what Burack wants. In Chicago, Washington, and New York bookstores are already running out of copies. And the Coop says they are selling "exceptionally well." Things are moving fast, "and the real promotion has not begun yet," Burack says...
...Well, I think it's one one of the things we have to take a look at. I'm considering it, but I have not reached a conclusion with respect to that particular approach." Romney cannot shrug off a question. Instead, he fondles it a while, then tosses it back to the questioner...