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October 08, 2008 Opinion » Letters to the Editor

America The Business

As a boomer growing up watching Leave it to Beaver, I never quite understood why that phrase - giving someone "the business" - was always

By Eric Flowers

As a boomer growing up watching Leave it to Beaver, I never quite understood why that phrase - giving someone "the business" - was always used in a negative connotation.

I get it now.

Randy Kessler, Bend

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