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...course cover the spread against those pillaging, earth-destroying Cowboys." Or when he (infrequently) admits to a gaffe and as punishment spanks himself and squalls like a colicky baby. Or when he sucks on a bottle of diet iced tea and snorts like a happy hog at the trough...
...with the war coming in the trough of a recession, some companies stopped paying reservists on active duty and were happy to lose the burden. At USAir, 140 pilots were called to the military, but that fit right in with the struggling airline's plans. It furloughed 211 pilots last year and will send an additional 600 their walking papers in 1991. Such companies may have trouble reabsorbing reservists who demand their jobs back, but experts don't expect the phenomenon to have much impact on the U.S. economy, largely because troops will march home in relatively small groups over...
Academic isolation is a sad and terrible thing. But it is not surprising in a school that locks its first-year students in the Yard, shovels them into the trough of the Union and gives them a separate and unequal alcohol policy. We are two schools, one of 1600 students, the other...
...family." There he began his political career, winning a spot on the local planning board, then a seat as a state representative. He ran unsuccessfully for a number of higher offices, including state and U.S. Senator, before finally winning the governorship in 1982. That victory came at the trough of the Reagan recession. Sununu prevailed by promising to balance the state budget without broad-based new taxes. New Hampshire is one of the few states with no state personal-income or sales...
...they feed at the government trough, accepting a massive handout from the federal government at the expense of the needy...