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Bush vetoed the measure because of its Bizarro World price tag, which split the difference between a $14??billion House version and a $15 billion Senate version with a $23 billion consensus bill. Defenders say it has been seven years since Congress approved flood-control projects, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has championed the bill. But the corps already has a more than $50 billion backlog of unfinished projects, and investigations had exposed its dysfunctional habits--wasting money, draining wetlands, cooking its books to justify boondoggles--long before its bungling drowned New Orleans. Still, corps projects are a form...
...part that made Canadian actress Lois Maxwell famous--Miss Moneypenny, the down-to-earth British intelligence secretary in the first 14??James Bond films--required fewer than 200 words and less than 60 minutes onscreen over 23 years. But she made the role unforgettable. Starting in 1962's Dr. No, she was the definitive un-Bond girl: the smart, cute assistant who spurned Bond's advances, knowing he would break her heart, yet lit up when he entered the room. Many "hoped [Bond] would end up with her," said Maxwell, "because all the other women were so two-dimensional...
...days passed, however, the public mood turned more somber and then angry as the released Americans began to tell their families and U.S. officials about the cruelty they had endured during their 14?? months in Iran. No one sounded more outraged than Jimmy Carter, whose final days as President and first days as a returned citizen of Plains squeezed him through an emotional wringer. He had known, of course, that some of the hostages who had been released earlier had been verbally abused and psychologically harassed with threats of death?mild treatment compared with the savagery inflicted on many Iranians...
...Algerie 727, which was headed west over Iran. Now the Americans were all together for the first time since their imprisonment. They embraced emotionally. They excitedly roamed the plane's aisle, comparing experiences in captivity and wondering what had been happening in the outside world during those 14?? months...
...realistic approach to newsstand and subscription prices and sales. Explains LIFE Publisher Charles Whittingham: "The single most important lesson we learned is that readers have to pay for the magazine. They used to get a free ride." Indeed, when LIFE suspended publication, some subscribers were paying as little as 14?? a copy, a sum well below the cost of paper and ink. The new LIFE is priced at $1.50 a copy, whether purchased at a newsstand or through the mail, and Whittingham expects that circulation revenue alone will now "do a pretty good job" of covering the magazine's operating...