Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person who is wearing a cross, carrying a Bible or standing behind a pulpit is usually mentally deranged, at best incompetent...
...paper will remain a rarity in city hall rest rooms. The city cannot even afford new bulbs for its traffic lights. Parking meters work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer accepts jobs...
Much of what Congress does legally would put Executive Branch members behind bars. If White House chief of staff John Sununu, for example, were to take himself and his eight children to Disneyland at the expense of the coal industry so it could talk to him about the disadvantages of clean-air legislation, he would probably be accused of accepting a bribe. Yet industry- sponsored trips are a major form of recreation for some members of Congress and their staffs...
...increase proposed last January may have seemed like a pay grab, with elected officials trying to hide behind the judges and bureaucrats who would have received comparable raises and who are not in such bad odor with the public. But a reasonable pay raise keyed to automatic cost of living increases -- in exchange for a total loophole-proof ban on honorariums, gifts and free trips -- looks like a bargain when put up against, say, the average $14 billion annual cost of the S & L bailout. Some degree of public financing of campaigns might also help cut the umbilical cord between...
Many of the tales behind the numbers are horrifying. In Springfield, Mass., last April, a 13-year-old girl was walking through a park with a girlfriend when she was allegedly attacked by five boys no older than 16. They fondled her breasts and appeared to be preparing to rape her when her screams brought help. Last September a 15-year-old Houston boy raped and murdered a 66-year- old woman, then burglarized her home. In May a 15-year-old Detroit boy was charged with killing another teenager with a sawed-off shotgun, apparently in a dispute over...