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Some supporters of this atomization of federal oversight forecast a slew of new innovations from the workings of 50 separate governments. But these innovations would doubtlessly be superficial, indigenous to their states of origin. Republicans also tout the agility of smaller state bureaucracies in reacting to societal shifts, in comparison to the purportedly unwieldy federal system...
...before he could dispense his advice, my companion interrupted him. 'Wouldn't want to say stuffy,' she said, half-jokingly, the other half intending to tout my school. 'He's a Harvard man, you know,' she explained...
...joined Armani and Chanel as one of the three best-selling elite designers in the U.S. There are already 22 Sander boutiques worldwide; by the end of next year, there will be 10 more, from Osaka to Houston, Dallas to New York City. Even fashion editors who tout couture's more fanciful currents on the pages of their magazines venerate Sander. "You walk into her showroom and think, 'My God, this is heaven,"' says Harper's Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis. "You think, 'Do I need to wear anyone else's clothes ever again...
...Bill Clinton remarked at his press conference last Friday that two years ago he could not have imagined himself doing any such thing. Quite suddenly though, the Administration that had long seemed confused and blundering in foreign policy is riding an overseas winning streak that it is eager to tout...
...another perversion of the tyranny of the American majority, those rare unified blips on the heart-monitors of public opinion are invariably amplified and exploited by congressional campaigners. Showing no discrimination for which of those mass sentiments they exploit, many candidates simply tout the Gallup line, even if it means promoting hate for and undermining the very institution they seek to build. Polls showing that 70 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with Congress are like great waves of what the New York Times calls "sheer undifferentiated anger" on which candidates can coast to victory...