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...Tucker •propensity of insufferable people to bear the name is noted...
That virtue died with the baby boom, but it had been ailing ever since the Depression, argues cultural historian David Tucker in The Decline of THRIFT in America. That crisis, he writes, invited economists to recast THRIFT as "the contemptible vice which threw sand in the gears of our consumer economy." A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child "a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things." These days...
...Bounds, Tucker •claims McCain deserves credit for previously-thrashed-out bailout deal that fell apart when McCain arrived in Washington...
...Doing TV - first on CNN with Tucker Carlson, then exclusively on MSNBC - Maddow at first showed jitters. She didn't look comfortable with the ludicrous compression of arguments, the need to drown out other guests to get a point across. The casual-garbed Maddow also felt awkward having to "dress like a Senator" on TV. But as her radio work proved, Maddow's a quick study. She got on top of the medium quickly. Certainly the MSNBC brass thinks so. Otherwise they wouldn't have dumped Dan Abrams' The Verdict to make room...
...Campbell, certainly you don't mean to belittle every experience, every judgment that she makes.' TUCKER BOUNDS, John McCain spokesman, responding to questions from CNN anchor Campbell Brown about Sarah Palin's experience as commander in chief of Alaska's National Guard...