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by Annie Linskey | July 19, 2012
Maryland's Republican Party seems to be solidly behind presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, but the party raised some eyebrows today with an email solicitation. The missive advertises an upcoming pig roast. Among expected attendees it lists "our Romeny delegation to Tampa. " "It is simple error," said GOP Executive Director David Ferguson. "Maybe you should find something better to do. " Perhaps he's right. But it is a good thing for the GOP that the presidential race in Maryland won't be decided by write-in.
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May 17, 2011
Oyster poachers and big oil companies have similar business practices ("Washington's pig roast," May 13). The difference is that big oil companies have enough money and influence to insure that what they do is technically legal. David Ingalls, Severna Park
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May 12, 2011
Even the staunchest admirers of corporate CEOs — you know, the star-struck junior executives who buy the ghost-written biographies and how-to-manage books — will have to admit that there's something downright cathartic about seeing oil company executives grilled by a congressional committee when gasoline prices hit $4 per gallon. Try as they might to defend $35 billion in profits in the first quarter alone, the CEOs presented a thoroughly unconvincing case for why their industry should be subsidized through tax breaks.
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By Mike Bowler and Mike Bowler,SUN STAFF | June 12, 2002
THE SCHOOL YEAR is ending, and all across the nation -- around the world, for that matter -- the Flat Stanley children are coming home to report on their adventures. Jeff Brown couldn't be happier, and neither could a few hundred primary school teachers and thousands of kids between the ages of 4 and 8 from the Azores to Zimbabwe, not to mention the Grace and St. Peter's School in Baltimore. Brown is the author of the delightful 1964 children's book, Flat Stanley, about a little boy named Stanley Lambchop who is squashed by a falling bulletin board, leaving him depth-disadvantaged.
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By Dail Willis and Dail Willis,Eastern Shore Bureau of The Sun | September 4, 1995
OCEAN CITY -- They've been coming to the same downtown hotel for weekends, holidays and vacations since before they were married in 1957. And Labor Day 1995 is no exception for Pete and Betty Cloud, whose history at the Belmont-Hearne on Dorchester Street stretches back almost four decades.The shaded front porch with the white rockers and the view of the Boardwalk still draws them down the three flights of stairs from Room 38, "their" room. No matter that they own a condo over at Harbor Island -- they rent that out to others.
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By New York Times News Service | July 5, 1995
DUNBARTON, N.H. -- Jean Dimock caught up with Sen. Phil Gramm near the stand selling "Clinocchio" T-shirts."You're going to keep your pro-life stand?" she asked. The Texas Republican assured her he would."You're going to stick with the Republican platform?" she continued. Mr. Gramm once again assured her he would.That done, Ms. Dimock peered around the crowd for another presidential candidate to buttonhole. Asked if she had decided whom to back, she shook her head as if in horror. She still had to talk to several of them, she said, and then study their voting records.