Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captioned picture of him. But then, some of the best shots are of dancers with their dogs, hauled along on the lonely tours. And the piles of pointe shoes, grubby, used-up torture instruments. A ballerina can go through three or four pairs a performance. A.B.T.'s yearly bill is more than $300,000, and that's not Kleenex...
...economic impact." Meanwhile, members of the Senate Finance Committee have been quietly pondering measures that would reduce the tax loopholes for interest payments and give a break to dividends. To cushion the Wall Street impact of such provisions, they might be included as part of a general tax bill that would seek to narrow the budget deficit...
SCROOGED. The very meanest executive in the whole TV business (think of it!) finally gets the Christmas spirit. In this amiable, slapdash comedy, Bill Murray is a sleazy delight. God bless him, everyone...
...Simon & Schuster; $24.95). The first half of a two-volume biography as social history puts Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of the American revolution in race relations that began with sit-ins and Freedom Rides and ended with President Lyndon B. Johnson maneuvering a stalled civil rights bill through Congress...
...bill, hastily passed before the pre-election congressional recess, contained a one-year prohibition on legislators from lobbying former colleagues and a lifetime ban on lobbying by Executive Branch officials on any matter in which they had been involved. The President said he refused to sign the measure because he feared that it might deter qualified people from accepting Government jobs...