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...recite them through gritted teeth: forgetting to put in a cassette; failing to turn on the timer or (on some machines) switch off the VCR; accidentally leaving on the mute button; coming home to discover that a presidential press conference has put the whole evening's schedule out of whack...
...Perot plan. Whoever would have expected that a tract on deficit reduction could captivate people and rank as a best- selling book? In United We Stand, Perot tells how he would raise gasoline taxes 50 cents per gal., boost the top income-tax rate from 31% to 33% and whack 10% out of spending for programs ranging from medical research to highway construction. The goal of such tough actions: to slash the federal deficit and balance the budget in five years. "What Perot has done is to put some real beef on the table," says Robert Reischauer, director...
...raise within a few months and quit when he was refused. Sullivan quickly capitulated and was soon paying him $60 a week, a preposterous sum for the time. All his life, no matter how much he made (and borrowed: friends and patrons lent him thousands of dollars at a whack), Wright felt poor, thanks to an unhesitatingly indulged taste for swank -- chamois underwear, high-performance sports cars, whatever was gorgeous and rare...
...problem is that the economics of recycling are out of whack. Enthusiasm for collecting recyclables has raced ahead of the capacity in many areas to process and market them. Right now, says Victor Bell, a veteran Rhode Island recycling expert, "the market can't keep up with the recycling binge." In recent years many states and municipalities have passed laws mandating the collection of newspapers, plastics, glass and paper. But arranging for processing -- and finding a profit in it -- has proved tricky. As trucks loaded with recyclable materials arrive at processors, backlogs develop. Worse, the glut has depressed already soft...
...these people had the intent, critically attentive gaze of opera buffs checking out a diva's pitch. "Was that spurt realistic enough?" they seemed to be mentally debating. Was that a clean whack that took off the arm of the papier mache fan? Periodically they moved their heads in a sort of approving nod: good spurt, good whack...