Word: billã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show of Gorillaz’ inaugural tour of America reflected the buzz surrounding this gig by one of the most enigmatic bands to get serious airplay for the past year or two. Stretching most of the way down Lansdowne Street, new arrivals joined the line outside the entrance to Bill??s Bar, a good 50 yards or more from Avalon. As the line shuffled its way towards the door, the thumping sound of the opening set by DJ and founding Gorilla Dan “The Automator” Nakamura throbbed out on to the street. Inside...
Naysayers at the time cautioned that the bill??s worst consequences would not be felt until the boom ended; of course, such foresight was quickly muffled by the roaring debate about how to spend a surplus that vanished before it ever materialized. The bill must be renewed this year, just when its optimistic if not utopian targets (like the requirement that 50 percent of signle parents on welfare work at least 30 hours per week) might need a little tweaking in light of the recession. Bush’s former gubernatorial colleagues are asking for wiggle room...
...draft statement issued last week, the governors said the bill??s definition of work activity should include more job training, education and drug abuse treatment, eliminate the requirment stipulating that 90 percent of two-parent families have one parent working and allow families whose five years on welfare are about to expire to remain on the rolls...
...committee will also have its own budget supported through event revenues, though the council may need to lend it money, the bill??s sponsors said...
...House and with a Democratic majority in the Senate, Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) finally have their chance to push this legislation through Congress. As they do, they should resist as many amendments as possible to stay true to the McCain-Feingold bill??the Senate version—and thereby protect it from entering a conference committee, where it may never again see the light...