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...fellow African Americans believe it would be better for ambitious young blacks, and everyone else, to direct their energies into legitimate enterprises, and most do. But one of the surest signs that an ethnic group is moving on up is that its members have developed the good business sense to abandon street crime for far more lucrative suite crime, which requires brains, training and access to important decisions from which blacks have long been excluded. Someday a black financier will have the power to commit a massive fraud that shakes stock markets around the world, get a slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Civil Right | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

Basic economic theory points out that the surest way to generate a short-age in the supply of a certain good is to institute a price ceiling. This is exactly what we are seeing now in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Things Past | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Basic economic theory points out that the surest way to generate a shortage in the supply of a certain good is no institute a price ceiling. This is exactly what we are seeing how in Cambridge. Fixed rents have aggravated the shortage since people are less willing to rent their property knowing they can only charge minimal rents. And rent control has decreased property values since the prospect of purchasing property to rent out is scarcely enticing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rent Control Is Rotten | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...surest sign that Peck has little to say is evident in his tendency to repeat boring phrases over and over again in his tunes. On the banal folk-rock tune "Any Way I Can," he actually sings the words "Any Way I Can" 15 times in a row. Peck then sings, "Yes I pay my dues/get drunk and sing the blues/have nothing left to lose." It is obvious that Peck has not fully paid his dues yet, nor has he really played the blues. If he truly has nothing left to lose, then all of his talent has disappeared with...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Moxy by the peck | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...surest way to get those quotes right? Say what you mean--in your own words, not the words of the millions who have gone before you. We'll remember that...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Nation of Spin Doctors Should not Hold Us Back | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

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