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...project's path through Congress will not be smooth in any case. A Department of Energy spokesman notes that the supercollider has been given only $100 million out of a requested $348 million in funding for fiscal year 1989. It is projected that afterward the SSC would require $600 million a year until 1995, an uncertain amount in 1996 to finish the job and a projected $270 million a year in operating funds thereafter. At a time when deficit and budget reduction will become ever more important, that kind of spending will take every bit of clout Bush, Bentsen, Gramm...
Bush and Salinas used upbeat language to describe their two-hour session at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. They gave few specifics in brief remarks afterward, but Bush aides said topics had included drugs, immigration, trade and Mexico's $102 billion international debt...
...Hopkins, 44, also garnered some biting written evaluations from partners who branded her "macho," foulmouthed and harsh to co-workers. One said she needed to take a "course at charm school." Her candidacy was put on hold for a year. Afterward, a partner who was one of her biggest supporters advised her that she might improve her chances if she learned to walk, talk and dress "more femininely . . . wear makeup, have her hair styled and wear jewelry...
...urban schools the outcroppings of neglect and despair abound. When Chicago's Kathy Daniels asked her students to write an essay about something that made them angry, one boy described the time his brother was gunned down and died on the front steps of his house. Soon afterward, the boy himself was fatally shot. In poor rural areas, the deprivation can be even more elemental. "I've got kids that have never held a pencil before," says a Mississippi kindergarten teacher. "And last year I had one that had never held silverware." Trying to convey the majesty of Shakespeare...
DURING the 1986 campaign for the Massachusetts eighth congressional seat, then-candidate Joseph Kennedy II jogged through stalled traffic in Allston, shaking hands with motorists in a final effort to sway any remaining undecided voters. Shortly afterward, my friend Paul, who had spent the summer working construction in Cambridge, told me how his co-workers, having seen Kennedy on television, raved about his whistle-stop tour of the area's red lights...