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...Socialists found themselves forced to support their big coalition partner in a series of effective but unpopular anti-inflationary curbs that pinched consumer pocketbooks and cut back government expenditures on the promised social reforms. His United Socialists paid the price at the polls, winding up with a significantly reduced slice of Italy's political pizza (see chart...
...maximum drip. On the walls hang dreamlike, deft pen-and-watercolor landscapes, depicting logs, brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with a slice removed and aluminum tubing tied with string. The whole kids Roy Lichtenstein's slick abstract "Modern Sculptures" and a high-flown review that attacked their "weakness...
House Republicans wanted a slice of $6 billion, but appeared ready to compromise at $5 billion. With that amount, Mills was sure that he could muster 90 to 100 Republican votes for the tax rise, more than enough to offset the defection of liberal Democrats, who agreed with the President that the budget needed more, not less money...
...cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
...police came in and started going through the food supply that the committee had organized. They were saying things like, "Have a slice of liberated balogna" and "Have a liberated orange." Then one of them said, "This is a nice jacket, let's see what's in the pockets." He noted that there was no money...