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...World War I. Armistice came four days later. Howard was a small man who kept a mirror in his office, in front of which he would invite people of comparable size to stand beside him to prove he was not so little after all. The Scripps-Howard motto, under Howard and today, is "Give light and the people will find their own way." Next to the motto, in the pages of its newspapers, is a likeness of a lighthouse...
Perception is reality. It is the motto of pickpockets, but also the police. Los Angeles authorities discovered a few years ago that an empty police car parked alongside a speedway would serve just as well as a manned cruiser to slow down traffic. In fact, at least one Beverly Hills denizen has taken to keeping a fake patrol car in the driveway to deter thieves. Mere burglar alarms are obsolete today; the up-to-date suburban paranoiac installs timers in his house to turn lights off and on while he is away...
...States of America was suspended, upside down, from the bleachers and posters read "Caspar Weinberger Mass Murderer". For people trying to change American policy because they care about our democratic ideals, the flag and the constant chanting that made free speech an impossibility were hypocritical, especially at Harvard whose motto is "veritas" and whose goal is the quest for knowledge...
...this as in other issues, Fowler's detractors say that his motto, "Let the marketplace decide," translates as "Let the industry decide." They contend that his stated intention of making the broadcast media as unfettered as print ignores a fundamental distinction: the number of broadcast outlets is limited, and the Government decides who gets them. "The reason for regulation," notes former FCC Chairman Charles Ferris, "is still the scarcity of the spectrum and the fact that not everyone can participate...
...Corporal Jeffrey Nashton of Jacksonville, N.C., reached up and grabbed Kelley's four stars to make sure he was who he said he was. In response to Nashton's signals, a pad of paper was put in his hand. He wrote, "Semper Fi,"short for the Marine motto Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful). Reagan was so moved by the account that he repeated Kelley's words verbatim during his televised speech last week. Added Reagan: "It says more than any of us could ever hope to say about the gallantry and heroism of these young...