25 years ago in reason."How would you like to have your own satellite ground station, receiving up to six channels of first-run movies, live concerts, and sports events? Several years from now you may be able to call your local Sears Roebuck store and order such a system." --Robert Poole Jr., "Pay TV Expands" "The bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu approach to inner-cit problems drives away the very people who are almost likely to revive the depressed areas--the entrepreneurs." --Stuart M. Butler, "Salvaging Our Cities" "The [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
--John D. Lewis Jr., "American Gestapo: How the BATF BATF abbr. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is Riding Roughshod Over Civil Liberties" "Military spending is not spending in the eyes of so-called tightwads in COngress, you know, the traditional right-wing kind of people. They rave and rant about cutting government spending Government spending or government expenditure consists of government purchases, which can be financed by seigniorage, taxes, or government borrowing. It is considered to be one of the major components of gross domestic product. and then take a deep breath and propose a blank check Blank check A check that is duly signed, but the amount of the check is left blank to be supplied by the drawee. for the military." --"Reason Interview: Ernest Fitzgerald" |
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