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...tales of Archimedes jumping up and down in his bathtub yelling "Eureka" and a prim and patrician Isaac Newton cursing the apple that hit him on the head is the fable of three men in business suits having dinner at a posh Washington restaurant. Arthur B. Laffer, an upstart economics professor from California, Louis Lehrman, and Wall Street Journal editorialist Jude Wanniski were finishing their drinks, as the story goes, when conversation shifted to one of their favorite topics, conservative economics. Wanniski (or was that Lehrman?), asked if it was possible for the federal government to cut taxes without losing...
Even in confinement, the horses refuse to give up easily. They stomp and batter at the grating, and resist every effort to trailer them to a larger enclosure. Robison must cut off the colts from their mothers for the trip to the adoption distribution center. One young upstart sends him flying against the fence, and it takes his best hammerlock to wrestle him down...
...Pittsburgh Steelers' four-game winning streak ended with a crushing 34-7 loss to AFC Central division leaders, the Cincinnati Bengals, while the NFC's early season upstart, the San Francisco 49ers, maintained their Western Division lead with a 13-3 victory over the Green Bay Packers...
...economics and common sense. It happened at a time when the walkout of nearly 12,000 air controllers was forcing airlines to curtail their schedules and pack passengers sardine-style into the planes that are still flying. Unlike many recent air-fare battles, the combatants were not the small upstart carriers or the thriving regional airlines. This time the big trunk lines that dominate air-traffic lanes were fighting it out. What is more, the price war was touched off by Pan American World Airways, which lost $217.6 million during the first half of the year and would seem...
...service charges, slashing markups on many stock trades, and running lively advertising campaigns in national newspapers and magazines. A sample slogan from a Merrill Lynch ad, circa 1940: "Hats off to a smart little housewife!... When Sue thinks of investments, she consults a reliable organization like Merrill Lynch." The upstart firm grabbed a lead on its stuffy competitors and never looked back...