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...ignoring the failed war on drugs," says Harshbarger. "The constituencies that are hurt by these issues aren't donating millions of dollars to the political parties. Unless you fix campaign finance, you can't move on to the other issues." Still, it seems a curiously arbitrary trio of concerns--particularly the drug-war component, which scores scarcely a blip in any catalog of the public's disenchantments. Why single out drug laws instead of guns, for example, or the environment, or educational policy, or any of half a dozen issues with greater populist appeal...
...other cases, partnership agreements can be drawn up between family members. That was how Bruce Carlow, 54, took over Trio Hardware, a store his father Bernie started in 1963 in Plainview, N.Y. With 15 full- and part-time employees, Trio Hardware currently generates $1.2 million a year in revenues. The deal prevented the elder Carlow from selling the store out from under his son, by giving Bruce the right of first refusal should a sale be contemplated. In return, Bruce agreed to pay his father $2,500 a month plus 7% interest over a 10-year period and to retain...
Equally important, Bernie says, was knowing that his son wanted to take over the business in the first place and keep Trio Hardware in the family. "Bruce is a fantastic merchandiser, a really good businessman. But what makes him so good at what he does is that he really enjoys running this store," Carlow says. "And when all is said and done, that's what makes all the difference in a successful family business...
...Phil probably had nothing to do with it; performed by Darlene Love on the B side of "Stumble and Fall" 7. Telstar - Joe Meek (performed by the Tornados in Meek's production) 8. Stroll On - Sort of by the Yardbirds (plagiarized from Johnny Burnett and His Rock and Roll Trio's "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; the Yardbirds' performance in Antonioni's "Blow Up" is the one that changed the course of human events) 9. Cherry Cherry Coupe - Brian Wilson and Roger Christian 10. I'll Be Around - Alec Wilder (performed by Sinatra; the one my wife calls "the stalker song...
...asserting civilian control over the corps. But Caldera's efforts generated a rebuke from three senior Republican Senators: Robert Smith of New Hampshire, chairman of the Environment Committee; Ted Stevens of Alaska, who runs the Appropriations panel; and John Warner of Virginia, who heads the Armed Services Committee. The trio tersely told the Pentagon in April to leave the corps alone. Caldera's proposal, they said, could "compromise the professional and technical analysis performed by the corps...