Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spend more time addressing the Reagan budget, noted Tennessee's Republican Governor, Lamar Alexander, "is that none of us expects the President's budget to pass." After meeting with the President, Democratic Governor John Carlin of Kansas reported that Reagan showed he had not lost touch with reality, admitting he did not expect his New Federalism to pass both the House and Senate this year either. Thus the debate was taking place in something of avoid. Observed Carlin: "When I talk to the Kansas farmer or small businessman, there's not too much concern about...
With the rest of the team screaming, whistling, and raising all kinds of heck in Army's Olympic Natatorium, sophomore Dave Phillips, junior Jim Carbone, and sophomores Tony Meier and Mike Miao churned to touch first...
...free, a slow touch by Miao dropped him to fourth with a 21.02 clocking. LaSalle's Paul Jarvis won the sprint...
...Upon contended that entire outlines may be recalled from memory cells at the touch of a button, helping students cheat on closed-book exams...
THIS TABLOID SIZE humanity makes wealth easier to distribute vicariously. So long as the rich appear men of the people, we can aspire to luxury. The patrician with the common touch preserves equality of opportunity. At the same time, we like variety in our world of increasing egalitarianism. Equality may suggest mediocrity and no one seeks mediocrity openly. Instead, we want to identify with those who won't settle for the second rate. Even McDonald's had standards, though perhaps more of uniformity than excellence. the rich give us the break we deserve from sooty skyscrapers...