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...baggy army fatigues finishes the Motown milestone "My Girl." An elderly gentleman steps forward and drops a bill into the open guitar case. "We should all learn from this man tonight," bellows the musician, mocking the voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks those at the back to move up to the curb to avoid blocking traffic, then gets all singing and many dancing to his one-man version of the Beatles' "Twist and Shout." It is a happy inter-generational, inter-racial scene. Cars and buses...
Common interests arose. The Presidents talked of their libraries (Ford's, and Nixon's and Carter's to be), of writing books and just living as an ex-President (pretty good). All three men seemed to swell a bit as the evening wore on. Warmth replaced coolness. Each man, in his own way, sensed that he was back on a stage, that he could make a little more favorable history for himself...
...Tasco Inc., a Shell Rock, Iowa, builder of hog barns, grew rapidly during the 1970s and saw its employment rolls swell...
...protesting that we haven't had full economic recovery." Reagan did not acknowledge that he and his aides were slow to concede the inevitable: that a package of $280 billion in tax cuts and $130 billion in spending cuts over three years passed in July was certain to swell budget deficits far beyond what had been anticipated. The bond and stock markets have slipped dramatically since then in anticipation of a sluggish economy, continued high interest rates and a 1982 deficit that analysts feared might top $60 billion. Alice Rivlin, head of the Congressional Budget Office, accepted that figure...
...almost parallel to the canvas, then reach up to keep his punches above the belt. Looking like a man who was stooping down to stick his chewing gum under a table, Leonard took repeated short rights under his left eye. By the third round the eye had begun to swell...