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...recent survey of people ages 18 to 44 shows that more white women are lighting up (2% more in 1992 than in 1987), reversing a trend that saw the percentage of females who smoke slip from 34% in 1965 to 27% in 1992. But at least one group is quitting: the percentage of black women between the ages of 18 and 24 who smoke went from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Nov. 14, 1994 | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...evil has traditionally been an equal-opportunity employer. Where would Barbara Stanwyck and the other ladies of the noir have been if their only subtext had been female victimization? Every once in a while a girl has to stop brooding over gender injustice, start thinking about sexual revenge, and slip into her thigh-highs and stiletto heels to lure a few dopes to destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Wretch on a Sexual Rampage | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...spite of liberal rhetoric to the contrary, we have to look after the needs of our own people first. Clearly there is a need for Prop 187. Just because an individual manages to slip across the U.S. border, in full violation of the law, doesn't mean he or she is automatically entitled to all the privileges of a U.S. citizen. We as a nation have the right to deny social services to criminals who break our laws and arrive here illegally...

Author: By Brad Whitman, | Title: A Modest Proposition | 11/8/1994 | See Source »

This doesn't mean that Kennedy hasn't helped the lives of many in Massachusetts. You don't last for 32 years in the Senate without learning how to slip a program in here and save a base from closing there. And those new federal programs and reopened bases mean jobs here in the Commonwealth...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Vote for Romney | 11/2/1994 | See Source »

Whoa, Clearly this guy has been hitting the books just a tad too hard. He'll probably ace his midterms, though. He can just slip those sentences into any given midterm and they'll make perfect sense. For you readers out there, feel free to use those sentences as well. They're in the public domain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let There Be Comedy | 10/29/1994 | See Source »

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