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...yeah, it's called "The Inherent Dishabille of the Fourteenth Crack from the Left on the Blarney Stone and Its Psychotraumatic Relevance to Tongue Elevation in Elementary Gaelic, Grades 1-3, County Cork...
...fight if Cassius did not denounce the Muslims. Conrad remembers: "When Ali heard that the fight was going to be nixed, he turned to Angelo and said matter of factly, 'Well, that's that.' He had absolutely no intention of renouncing his faith, not even for a crack at the world championship he'd fought and slaved so long and hard to get. It meant chucking the fight and plunging into obscurity, but he didn't hesitate...
...that's what they were into." In another, Luke speaks before an assembly of high school boys, counseling them to avoid the draft. "There was a lot of shit over there I find f- ing hard to live with," Luke tells the kids, as his voice starts to crack. "But I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm just saying that there's a choice to be made." At such moments Coming Home, like Shampoo before it, reminds us of the choices everybody made during those harrowing war years - and of the price the nation...
...Miller introduced the 7-oz. "pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...
...Carter. The Administration's priorities, while clear enough, are emphatically not those that businessmen would select. Most executives are frightened by inflation, fear that it may bring an end to the expansion in a year or two despite Carter's tax cuts, and think the President should crack down on it by cutting federal spending and the budget deficit more than he intends. Businessmen and economists, like Murray Weidenbaum, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, consider his anti-inflation program "a puffball," and fear that the Administration is not yet sufficiently aware of how damaging a further decline...