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Before the game, Oil Can watches an episode of the Geraldo Rivera Show featuring people mentally obsessed with sweetened breakfast cereal. He boldly proclaims, "I was a Cap'n Crunch addict." He repents of his past transgressions and goes on to pitch the game of his life...
...couple is among the legion of determined Americans who are struggling against all odds to buy their first home. But now, as the spring house-hunting season approaches, some help may be on the way. Everyone from builders to bankers to President Bush, who has called the home-buying crunch "among the most important and challenging issues in America today," seems eager to help first-timers catch up with the runaway cost of housing. When Jack Kemp was sworn in this month as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the former Congressman promised grandly, if vaguely, to "help recapture...
...There's never been a demonstration in favor of tax increases," said Johnston, a former state legislator. "But we'll have to be calm and tell the people the reality of the budget crunch--that this is a progressive tax increase...
Elaborate plans are being drawn up for 21st century subterranean cities that may relieve the country's space crunch. Offices below ground level could create a new class of vertical commuters...
...ethic himself. After the meeting with fund raisers, he critiques game films, takes a conference call from Upward Bound girls on campus visits, and works on funding proposals in his living room. There's a curiously unfinished look here: unpapered walls, some exposed studs, sparse furniture. When a cash crunch hit the academy, he and Aline diverted second-mortgage money intended for remodeling and refurnishing. "Hey," he shrugs, "it'll get fixed someday...