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...holy event. It would only interrupt his nonstop rant about the shortcomings of his opponent, Republican incumbent John Engler. "He's a cheater, a liar and a coward," said Fieger. "He's a man of mediocre intelligence who's never done anything in life but suck off the public trough." The Engler camp, meanwhile, is clinging desperately to higher ground. "Fieger can roll in the mud by himself," says John Truscott, an Engler spokesman...
...This Attorney General, however, is fighting every scandal to hit Washington since Nixon resigned, since it was proved to America that when there's smoke, there's sinister fire. For two decades it's been an accusers' market and a political feast. This time, it's Republicans at the trough, and they're not about to leave unsated...
...protect American consumers against Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it is preparing to ban the use of animal parts in livestock feed. The measure is intended to erect a barrier which will help prevent any possible transmission of the illness from the feeding trough to the dinner table. "If we don't take preventive action today, we may regret it three to four years down the road," explained FDA Commissioner David Kessler. "By saying that cattle and sheep cannot be fed any products that cause this disease, we are in essence erecting a fire wall...
Judging from what we've been told by business writers in recent years, the real problem CEOs have with putting women on the board may be that a female director, unaccustomed to feeding at the deep end of the corporate trough, is less likely than old clubhouse buddies to take a broad view of executive compensation...
...council's priorities must now and always be to make the College a bastion of comfortable learning for undergraduates. Students are not chattel. The administration cannot trough-feed us the Core or placate us with the Loker Commons. We believe in the strength and unity and goodness that an undergraduate community dedicated to a rigorous education and a moral responsibility can achieve. We believe in the power of democracy not simply as a balance of group interests but as a mechanism of fostering community. We believe that the council's purpose should be to uphold these beliefs, to fight...