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Moreover, at least in the higher education sphere, the Reagan efforts to slice into student financial aid from the government has spawned an unusually vehement reaction from some constituents groups, especially students themselves...
...Another bowl of grits won't kill anyone," said Ron White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Dixie Lily corn grits and Martha White's hush puppies, among other goodies...
...very provincial city. In a nine way. Every year, some newspaper outside New England will run a feature on the Beanpot Tournament--not so much a sports article, but a slice-of-life-in-Boston article. Curious, isn't it, how Bostonians get so excited over college hockey, the collegiate sport that never managed to produce the same nationwide mania as football and basketball? And they pack the Boston Garden for a little tournament--the same four teams play every year, even--and they scream themselves hoarse, Quaint old Beantown...
...private banks in the future. The expectation by these bankers that they will be bailed out after their mistake achieves new heights of private-sector hypocrisy. For the present, though, all the American people can do is hope--that the very same bank executives who squandered a huge slice of the nation's treasure will be able to retrieve it. Someday...
This seems like a hefty slice of cash for what many people consider essentially a promo item, but MTV, though it gets its clips gratis, paid $250,000 for the exclusive rights to show the documentary, from which it lifted the Thriller video intact; Showtime paid $300,000 for pay-cable rights; and Vestron Video reportedly plunked down an additional $500,000 to market the cassette, in which Jackson has what the folks in business affairs call "a profit participation." Not only that, the Thriller album, already out for a year, went into the holiday season selling about...