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Charisma is no substitute for conviction. America loves an Odd Couple, if their most profound disagreement is over how often to vacuum: twice a day or never. But Bob Dole and Jack Kemp are no Felix and Oscar. They differ on fundamental matters like immigration and affirmative action. Big-tentism run amuck, the photo-op vice presidency played well at the convention. By October it was clear the marriage could not be saved, even for the sake of California's 54 electoral votes. Never wed someone with whom you already have irreconcilable differences...
...time home buyers or retirees with annual incomes of about $26,000; the trailers cost an average of $34,000. Green Tree's break came in the 1980s, when the savings-and-loan crisis drove many thrifts out of the mobile-home market. The company moved quickly into the vacuum. The gamble paid off big when the mobile-home market took off in the early 1990s. Since then, the firm has upgraded its relationship with dealers, establishing 24-hour service centers in St. Paul and Rapid City, South Dakota...
...maiden spying mission, to Panama. He recalls Luxmore warming to the topic at hand: "Not only have the Americans signed a totally misbegotten treaty with the Panamanians--given away the shop, thank you very much Mr. Jimmy Carter!--they're also proposing to honour it." A frightful power vacuum will occur, Luxmore argues, when the U.S. cedes control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians on Dec. 31, 1999. "Our task--your task--will be to provide the grounds, young Mr. Osnard, the arguments, the evidence needful to bring our American allies to their senses...
...been in there with portable vacuum cleaners, but you can't keep up with it," said John Provencher, Winthrop's head chef...
...teachers were coping with kids' misbehavior long before there was zero drug tolerance or gender sensitivity. What has changed is the parents. The welter of written regulations that have supplanted the rule of common sense in America's schools did not arise in a vacuum but in an atmosphere where parents think they know best--and certainly know how to call a lawyer. In response, skittish school boards have pursued rule codification as a way to narrow discretion and defend lawsuits. Yet trying to write detailed regulations about what is permissible between boys and girls during their most chaotic years...