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Duck shoes, bait jackets and chamois shirts are harmless enough, but now the rugged outdoorsman can buy mail-order ammunition. By dialing a toll-free number in which the last four digits spell BANG, customers can order ammunition ranging in size from .22-cal. slugs to 458 Winchester Magnums, known as elephant bullets. Says Aaron Zelman, the company's owner: "It's just like the Penney's or Sears' catalog...
...nation facing a widely proclaimed crisis in education, Reagan's destruction of federal education programs could spell the beginning of the end. Throughout this Administration Congress has resisted cuts in education. Now it's time to turn the tables. The Reagan Administration has precipitated a crisis in higher education. The new Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate can respond by not only protecting the GSL and work-study programs, but also increasing federal grant programs to help mitigate the rising cost of a college education...
...political reform was seen as an end in itself--and not just a means to economic reform--by Deng and other leaders of the Party. And just recently, authorities have emphasized the implementation of a constitution which gives people the right to go to the streets, to protest, to spell out opinions," he explains. "So this is a way for students to try to prove their constitutional rights...
...Duluth Arena where over 5000 people once yelled my name, where the scoreboard flashed obnoxious messages about me. Where people spell "Wurf" correctly on the very first...
...expanding crisis: a Teapot Dome, say, or Bay of Pigs. Nor is the problem merely a linguistic one. Just what name the affair acquires may influence how it is viewed by the American public. A scandal dubbed, say, Ayatullahgate or Mullahmess will be hard to take seriously, much less spell correctly. On the other hand, a silly name could offer some welcome comic relief in what might become an increasingly grim affair...