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...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "I accepted invitations to honor my friends ... and in doing so honored the political traditions of a very important state...
...Cracker-Barrel Wisdom: "Sitting down and getting to know one another is still the most important part of what there...
Washington -- NASA's planned $17 billion space station, dubbed the "Orbiting Pork Barrel" by opponents, barely got past the House last year. This year it may not even lift off the pad of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Influential Chairman GEORGE BROWN, worried about the project's effect on other items in the nasa budget, has told the President to glean some money from elsewhere for the station -- perhaps from foreign aid or environmental programs -- or else Brown's pivotal vote for the project will stay grounded...
...proposes: almost $9 billion would be allocated to help localities hire an additional 100,000 officers over five years. But after that money runs out, financially strapped communities may be forced to fire their new cops. What's needed, then, is a rejiggering. The crime bill's many pork-barrel provisions, like the one that would combat the introduction of "nonindigenous plant and animal species" into Hawaii, should be junked. Every available dollar should go for more cops -- forever...
...even go near Crate & Barrel, it's a madhouse," said shopper Karen B. Bisgeier, a first-year Business School student...