Word: takethings
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...then again, the Senate giveth, and the Senate taketh away. For all I know, they might throw the metaphorical roadster of highway safety back into fourth gear and drive off into the sunset of restrictive legislation. Maybe next week they'd raise the drinking age to 31 and require every occupant of a car to be strapped to an inflated air bag with 20-lb. test fishing line. I decided to withhold judgement until I could talk to an expert...
Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court giveth. Sometimes it taketh away. Last week it did both when it looked at the pestiferous question of pornography. First it concluded that the city of Indianapolis had acted unconstitutionally when it sought to prohibit some pornography as a form of discrimination against women. Then the next day the court ruled that cities or towns are free to use zoning ordinances to confine adult-movie theaters to the fringes of towns...
...financial services. When bills come due, however, the bank is nobody's patsy. Says Personal Banking Counselor Milli Laughlin: "We are not lacking astute banking principles. This is a business and you have to operate in a businesslike manner." After all, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...
...manager form of government with a weak mayor, citywide elections, and an incredibly complicated "proportional representation" system of voting. They lost their first campaign in 1938 but won in 1940 (perhaps aided by Mayor John L. Lyons, who--once asked about snowplows--said "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.") The first few Plan E elections established the power of the Cambridge Civic Association and the Brattle St. Old Cantabrigians...
...herd giveth and the herd taketh away...