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...management would be a far different place, with more moderate Democrats facing more conservative Republicans. Savoring a big re-election win in Kansas, Republican Robert Dole observed: "The liberals in Congress are going to have to learn a lesson. There is a kind of liberalism that doesn't wash any more." At the same time, the high turnover will probably make the Senate even more independent and self-willed. While its majority will share the basic outlook of the conservative President-elect, a Republican 97th Senate could prove to be just as balky as its predecessor...
...animals have now become a big business. Advertisers issue casting calls to rental agencies like New York City's All-Tame Animals or directly to trainers who maintain their own menageries. Ford leased its leaping lynx from Lloyd Beebe, the owner of Olympic Game Farms in Sequim, Wash. Beebe's 300 or so actors in residence, including elephants, rhinos and wolves, earned $2 million last year from commercials, movies and television shows. His business is growing at about 15% annually...
...challenger, who by credibly debating the incumbent could dispel lingering doubts about whether he was up to the job of President. Said Senior Adviser James Baker: "We only needed a draw to win." Reagan, in fact, did better than that. Said Carter Pollster Patrick Caddell: "It seems basically a wash, with maybe a slight edge for Reagan...
...author does not hide his admiration for the man whose record of 36 years on the high court may stand forever. And there is indeed much to admire. As a child in Yakima, Wash., Douglas had to conquer polio and poverty. He gave up everything dear to him to jump into the Establishment's big East Coast pond, and by age 39 was leading the successful campaign to reform the New York Stock Exchange. He spent half of his life on the Supreme Court championing un popular causes and had so much surplus energy that he became a prolific...
...steam vegetables, defrost meat, and wash dishes all at the same time in the dishwasher. You're already using the heat and the water, and you might as well take advantage of it." --JED CORMAN, U OF GEORGIA...