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...tanks from both the left and the right find agreement. By some estimates, the government funnels up to $75 billion a year to business, enough to account for almost half the federal deficit. The Agriculture Department, for instance, will spend $110 million this year to advertise overseas everything from V8 juice to Friskies, a "market promotion" budget that is almost 30% higher than in 1995. As these companies are among the world's best at marketing, "it's hard for me to believe that McDonald's needs government bureaucrats to tell them how to sell Chicken McNuggets," says Beau Boulter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY SUBSIDIES SURVIVE | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...interesting experience once when I pulled up along side a blacked-out Camaro whose sole occupant wore wrap-around sunglasses, a pink bandanna and all the indications of steroid use. I inched up a little to the light, and when it turned he thrust his V8 engine into action. Of course, he had to brake heavily to stop before the next light, but I arrived, unavoidably, slightly later than he did. Knowing that my horsepower was inferior, I decided that brains would...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

There were plenty of mismatches to exploit. Harvard's team speed advantage over New Hampshire was the equivalent of pitting a Ford V8 against a Venetian blind. There was no comparison...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Laxmen Explode At Ohiri | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...ever seen. Why would anyone pay huge amounts of money to join that club, to go to bad parties with bad music, watching people who can't evendance? There's bad lighting, badatmosphere, bad crowd.Blecchhh. It's justpathetic. walk in and think 'God, I could have had a V8. God. I could have done anything, I could have stayed at home and watched Sally Jessy Raphael.' It's just plain boring. And I want you to put this in your article...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fun Is What It's All About | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...black, thanks largely to the success of the intermediate Cordoba and the compacts-Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen-Chrysler is tinkering with the three only a little. Volare, for example, gets a "super six" engine that is 20% more fuel efficient than its old 318-cu.-in. V8...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: For '77 an Amazing Shrinking Act | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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