Word: bill
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...lines were drawn after the discovery of the Kennedy-backed rider to the budget bill that ordered the FCC to enforce strictly its rule against a person's owning both a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city. That turned out to be a pistol aimed directly at Murdoch, the only publisher who holds temporary waivers of the cross-ownership restriction...
...might not prop up the U.S. dollar abroad, but it could give the buck more weight at home. An alliance of Congressmen and business groups wants to replace the dollar bill with a gold-colored coin bearing the likeness of Christopher Columbus. The change would boost business for vending machines and could help the blind distinguish a dollar from larger denominations. It would also save money: coins last 13 times as long as the average greenback's 18- month life-span...
...This is a home run, believe me," exulted Texas Governor Bill Clements. "This is a great day for Texas!" The beleaguered oil-patch state has had relatively few of those lately, but last week it got a potentially Texas-size economic spur. A consortium of 14 U.S. semiconductor firms chose Austin over competing sites in 34 states for its research center, which will spend an estimated $250 million annually. The consortium, called Sematech, for Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, includes fierce rivals that have joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make...
Murphy has been bugged by the Cutone syndrome all year, and no one--not U.H.S., not Coach and cure-all Bill Cleary--has been able to concoct a cure. Murphy, a sophomore from Toronto who scored three goals last year, isn't used to having his pucks fly around like frenzied birds afraid to alight in their nests...
...instance, my term bill last semester--$8000, plus two dollars for lost keys, one dollar for the library, and another two dollars to cover the cost of giving me a copy of my transcript. Now, no intensely self-respecting institution such as Harvard would ever demean itself so far as to nickel-and-dime the same students who pay over $16,000 each year to live in overcrowded dorms. Unless tradition was involved...