Word: bill
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Replacing hole setter Bill Wolff probably will be either Co-Captain Eric Bentley or John Marshall, though both lack the size of Wolff...
...well-organized opposition has raised $4.6 million so far, more than four times what her . supporters have gathered. The money has financed a flood of direct mail, but perhaps the most potent Bird-blasting weapon has been Crime Victims for Court Reform. Drawing on the savvy of Strategist Bill Roberts, a political consultant who co-managed Ronald Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign, the group includes victims of crime and their families, in some cases the parents or spouses of murder victims. With the passion of bitter experience, they denounce Bird at public gatherings, and will swell the ranks of doorbell...
...approval of the Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Alliance--even though a lesbian was a third candidate in this race--for his consistent and early support of the Lesbian and Gay Rights bill. The bill, which seeks to prevent discrimination based on sexual preference and has been blocked by Senate President William Bulger, has proven to be a high priority of residents of this district...
...opposition too is learning that democracy cuts both ways. Opposition parties forced a bill through the Assembly in July giving the legislature wide investigative powers, including the right to order the arrest of reluctant witnesses. Roh vetoed the proposal. Consultations produced a compromise acceptable to both government and opposition. The event was quiet but historic, emblematic of the changes of the past year. "It is a good sign for democracy," says Kim Dae Jung. "We got together and compromised...
Feelies Co-Founder Bill Million, 35, may have got the group's name "subliminally" from a long-ago child's game: put your hands inside a covered box and guess what's inside. If their music were a guessing game, you could, inside the Feelies, grab on to the vintage strains of the mesmeric Velvet Underground and strong traces of up-to-the-minute bands like R.E.M. What is fresh about the Feelies is the kind of sardonic innocence they bring to tunes like What Goes On and Undertow. Anyone who hears this new album will feel good first...