Word: bacon
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Brooke says the race comes down to a "difference in effectiveness." Brooke is the ranking Republican on several Senate committees and a nationally recognized black leader. Tsongas, in his four years in the Congress, has proven that he is capable of bringing home the bacon. But if elected, he'll be the new man on the block. Balance that against Brooke's marital and financial problems and you've got a race that some say is too close to call...
...nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret out the cheaters, etc. When Evers isn't talking like an arch-conservative, he's persuading Mississippians he can better fatten their wallets than any other politician. Evers boasts of his Washington connections and how only he can "bring the bacon home to Mississippi." Any ideals he's ever had have given way to practical politics...
...wanted guests. No Marine Band in the foyer, but can almost hear a Sousa march as we proceed into State Dining Room. Elegant E-shaped table with cut fall flowers. Feel like Congressmen with votes in pockets. Orange juice at door for quick fix. Eggs (poached and scrambled), sausage, bacon, buns. Better cuisine than reported...
Farmer's Choice. Farm-fresh eggs; creamery butter; hearty Columbian java; stacks of extra chrisp toast with rasher of Canadian bacon...
...Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any rate increases that truck lines might seek in order to pay for a high settlement with the Teamsters; let in more lower-cost imported steel if American mills raise prices too much. Government officials are talking about administering the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in a way that would hold construction wages down rather than pushing them up. The act commands that contractors pay the "prevailing" area wage on federally aided construction jobs, but gives the Administration wide latitude in defining what that prevailing wage...