Word: arlen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race, Democrat Robert Casey defeated William Scranton III to replace the retiring Republican governor. Incumbent Republican Arlen Specter cruised past Bob Edgar in the Senate race...
...Pennsylvania, the candidates have followed the opposite game plan. There Reagan is far less popular. The unemployment rate has been running above the national average -- over 11% in some depressed industrial areas of the state. On the stump, Arlen Specter, a relatively moderate class of '80 member, rarely mentions Reagan and never discusses Republican control of the Senate. "That argument works more to my detriment than to my benefit," says...
...Star Wars, Edgar, a Methodist minister who combines a genteel manner with tough rhetoric, attacks the President and the Senator in the same breath. "Ronald Reagan wanted to take away your Social Security benefits back in 1981," he tells a group of senior citizens. "I was outraged . . . But Arlen Specter thought it was a good idea...
...books under various guises. She "seems to have had lovers almost as often as the rest of us have lunch," says Amos, "and such was their variety that one wonders if she even paused to glance at the menu." If she did, among the entrees she saw were Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, Louis Aragon, Aldous Huxley and Wyndham Lewis. Alas, at her funeral the pallbearers outnumbered the mourners. Writers, unlike painters, are not famous for acknowledging their models...
...Capitol Hill, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter asked President Reagan to name one of the Education Department's buildings after McAuliffe so that "her sacrifice will live forever in the memory of this nation." New York's Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman introduced legislation to designate Jan. 28 of each year as a permanent National Teacher Recognition Day. Florida's Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson, who, like Garn, had flown on a shuttle, proposed that seven of the newly discovered moons of the planet Uranus each be named for one of Challenger's victims. Colorado Republican William Armstrong went...