Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anti-gay slurs defaced a Leverett House poster advertising the Saturday speech of U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.), angry house residents said yesterday...
...countries suddenly considered at risk, especially developing nations that were the darlings of money managers just a few months ago. ``What we're seeing around the world is a flight from risk and thus a flight from emerging markets,'' said Paul Horne, an economist with the investment firm Smith Barney in Paris. ``Investors have become concerned with countries in which the triple threat of a high deficit, high public debt and high unemployment is a problem...
Three congressional Democrats, U.S. Rep. John W. Olver of the first district, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 of the fourth district and U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II of the eight district, did not even face challenges in November...
There is posturing on both sides. Popular kids' shows like Sesame Street and Barney & Friends, for one thing, are well enough established to weather any federal funding cuts. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- the federal agency that Gingrich and his supporters want to "defund" -- supplies only about 14% of PBS's annual income, with the rest coming from corporations, member donations and other sources. If the $285.6 million the CPB is handing out this year were wiped out, public TV would still survive, though in a hobbled condition...
...leading congressional foe of CPB funding, contends that public TV could survive just fine if it were off the government dole. For one thing, Pressler suggests, PBS could make up the money by negotiating for a piece of the revenue from the merchandising of Big Bird, Barney and other popular PBS children's characters. (The producers of Barney have done just that...