Word: suckers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin righting this imbalance, however, is the subject of heated disagreement in Washington. On one side is the White House, which clings to the ideal of free trade. On the other is an apparent majority in Congress, which seems convinced that the U.S. is being played for a sucker by its so- called friends abroad. As they maneuvered for position last week, both sides made major moves...
...little more practical when he bought his two miniature quails. Shopping for food for his pet turtle, a Christmas present from his dad, Dale, describing himself as "entrepreneurial," spotted the pair and decided that he would buy them and breed them. Besides, he adds, "I'm a sucker for anything with a beak...
...sake, but mundanity for the sake of... who knows? Impressions of community life in the small mining town--a carnival-like communion service where wafers are taken to accordion music, a songfest saluting beer, a fishing picnic where one woman asks June "have you ever seen a sucker?"--take on, for all their sociological insights, a grotesquely pointless irreality. Why suddenly does a marching band parade down Main Street? The impersonal curiosity with which these studies in "naturalism" are offered conveys a sense of uneasy intimacy similar to going through a stranger's family album...
...threatening to retaliate against several countries, including Japan, if they do not curtail unfair trade barriers against various U.S. products, ranging from leather shoes to canned fruit. But Congress will not be easily assuaged. Declares Louisiana Democrat Buddy Roemer: "My district says that America is Uncle Sam, not Uncle Sucker. Lead, Mr. President...
...Stone is more humble about his highly-touted panhandling skills, which he has been honing since he became co-class agent for the Harvard College fund in 1953. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," says Stone, the resident fundraising whiz of the seven-man governing Corporation. "I'm the only [Corporation member] with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the campaign and the endowment...