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Representative government on Capitol Hill is in the worst shape I have seen it in my sixteen years in the Senate. The heart of the problem is that the Senate and the House are awash in a sea of special interest campaign contributions and special interest lobbying...
...Saturday night on the Muggers' Express, with some of the cars awash in vomit, Lopez's patrol picked up a drunk who was hardly able to stand. He recognized them: "Hey, man, I seen you guys...
...news of the latest profits gusher reached the White House just as Carter was sending Congress his proposal for the windfall tax, and he seized the opportunity to make yet another appeal for passage, saying that the industry is "already awash" with profits. The occasionally populist President shows a deep distrust of large oil companies, and they are perfect targets for a bit of demagoguery because much of the public dislikes them too. Carter's verbal overkill is also intended to deflect public fury from the White House when gasoline prices, which are already rising sharply, go up even more...
Indeed, Romance is awash in cinematic jokes and asides: Hill laces the action with references to Hollywood lore, his own past hits and Truffaut's Antoine Doinel movies. The film's portrait of young love may be touching, but its most moving moments celebrate love of a different kind: the passion that movie professionals, both young and old, have for their craft...
...weak, he believes, because it is the only significant international trading currency and more than 75% of the official reserves of all non Communist countries are held in dollars. This unique dominance has enabled U S banks to lend out so many billions of dollars that the world is awash with them, and their value has been tumbling. Nobody knows how Turkey Zaire, Peru and many other impecunious countries will ever pay back their loans to Citibank, Chase or the rest of the big U.S. lenders. The debtor countries, pleading poverty, could indefinitely defer repayment. Then the Federal Reserve Board...