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...Government out of business, then anguished negotiations, and finally a compromise maintaining spending at levels a bit higher than currently scheduled. What makes these prospects especially depressing is that there is strong bipartisan agreement on what should be done: a deal wherein the White House would swallow tax increases and a slowdown in defense spending, and Congress would quit opposing cuts in social spending...
Said Mel Blumenthal, executive vice president of MTM: "Independent producers will become little more than robots responding to the whims of networks." Without being able to anticipate full revenues from syndication, producers argued, they would have no incentive to swallow losses on offbeat new shows. The award-winning Hill Street Blues, for example, is supplied to NBC by MTM at a loss of $ 1.43 million a year...
...feeling among some Japanese health professionals is that the system does not allow people many ways to release their anger. Men are allowed a few surly comments under the cover of drunkenness, and women sometimes take to their beds to show displeasure, but most of the time people just swallow their rage...
...Where did the term all hell broke loose first appear? John Milton's Paradise Lost. What did Nietzsche say on the subject of comedy? "That man has invented laughter because he of all species needs it." Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson quit the ministry? "He couldn't swallow the last supper." How, including names and dates, did the U.S. sexual revolution actually begin...
Certainly, Thatcherism is a bitter pill to swallow for liberals in the U.K., but at this point there is nothing else on the table. The currently obsolete Labor Party, which has flirted with socialism and communism, finally received the as from an English public fed up with outlandish proposals about quitting the Common Market, nationalizing many prime industries and scrapping the country's military defenses...