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...dividing point suggests if his various spending programs are to be feasible. His call for the elimination of tax loopholes has not yet focused on precisely which ones would be axed; many of them benefit many more taxpayers than just the wealthy. Moreover, his proposals for a stiff rise (as much as $17 billion) in corporate taxes could limit business investment, expansion and dividends. The prospect frightens Wall Street, where a stock market decline is feared. Certainly there are millions of voters who may not have high incomes now but aspire to the kind of wealth McGovern...
...more formal climes of Washington, D.C., he is regarded as a strong opponent of the war and Pentagon overspending, and has helped press for stiff -er environmental and consumer protection. Now 42, Eagleton has two children, Terry, 13, and Christin, 9, and a wife who figures to be an effective as well as a decorative addition to the campaign. When he was elected to the Senate, Eagleton announced: "I want to be regarded as a great United States Senator. I'd like to be re-elected three terms, acquire some seniority, get some good committees and hear James Reston...
...promoting the rapid-transit proposal. He has also pressed for state legislative approval of a massive annexation plan that would expand the city boundaries to include most of the metropolitan area and, not so incidentally, stem the flow of whites from the center city. Meanwhile, Massell faces a potentially stiff challenge in next year's mayoral election from Maynard Jackson, the city's 35-year-old black vice mayor...
...season! She should have gotten medals from the March of Dimes! Open your mouth. Why is your throat red? Do you have a headache you're not telling me about? You're not going to any baseball game. Alex, until I see you move your neck. Is your neck stiff? Then why are you moving that...
...than a fair share of trickery, but Hitchcock is such a superb storyteller that few viewers will even notice till well after the final fadeout. What they will notice is the perversity of the film. In one mind-boggling sequence, Bob tries to pry his diamond pin from the stiff fingers of the corpse that he has stashed inside a potato sack...