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Mondale capitalized on the Republicans' disarray. "I believe Ronald Reagan and George Bush should have a national debate on television," he joked. Reagan's policy, he said, recycling Candidate Bush's swipe at Reagan in the 1980 primaries, amounts to "voodoo economics...
...level in the 1960s did not help birth rates fall significantly until the government initiated a family-planning program. At the same time, Thailand and Indonesia lowered their birth rates through family-planning programs, but still have comparatively low income levels. The Reagan position, she said, is "full of voodoo demographics. It is a very simple-minded analysis that ignores ten years of experience since the last conference...
...bounty of $300 is now being offered for any remaining black pig, dead or alive, that can be turned up. That is a huge sum in rural Haiti, but voodoo priests are rumored to be hiding some native swine for use in their rituals. Explains one priest: "Some little gods will accept a black goat in place of a pig, but the important gods will...
...media yelping seemed pretty tame, at times, compared with the back biting among some Jackson advisers. One even suggested last week that it was Paterfamilias Joe Jackson's "black-music-business voodoo" that made a large advance from the promoter such a stumbling block and could even have kept his sons from earning still more on box-office percentages. Says the source: "Joe's philosophy is, 'My boys are the biggest, and they get their money up front.' " As a result of all this, in two of the first three cities on the tour, the money...
...idea is, they want to bring back the old days and the innocence of old movies. You know, when a kid's biggest worry was acne, not herpes. They say our poor tender souls are getting hurt by all these violent PG movies with evil gremlins and voodoo heart transplants and dirty words and bare skin. And they love this new PG-13 rating that'll supposedly keep kids like me out of pictures like those. Heck, Mom, you know I don't take that stuff seriously. I just go to prescreen the movies and tell...