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Women whose deportment and pursuit of excellence are worth emulating.
Noting the central position of the “pursuit of happiness” in America’s Declaration of Independence, the Los Angeles Times asked in 1926: “How can one pursue happiness by any swifter and surer means than by the use of the automobile?”
Like the pioneers of the Old West, Pooh is endlessly greedy, and he is cunning in pursuit of that greed.
Few, though, can match Santorum in the pursuit of political symbolism to the detriment of substance.
But in a business like baseball, where the long-term health of any one franchise depends on the long-term popularity of the game, the pursuit of short-term self-interest--in the form of the protection of the benefits of local monopolies--brings about collective harm.