Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sebastian Rice-Edwards plays sensitive young Bill, a boy meandering his way through the rubble and emotional chaos of war-torn London suburbia. A bit of an imp, but lovable nonetheless, Billy is as attached to his shrapnel collection as to his mother. Hope and Glory traces Bill as he grows out of his shyness, and seven-year-old Rice-Edwards captures the spirit of his character...
...Bill's sister Dawn (Sammi Davis) is only fifteen, but with the war on, she's already got a soldier beau. "It's the war," her mother says. "It's quick, quick, quick." Dawn replies, "I'm 15, still in school, and I want to be a nun when I grow up." A few months later she's pregnant...
WASHINGTON--Congress yesterday sent the White House a $296 billion defense authorization bill, and Republicans say President Reagan will sign it despite moderate arms control restrictions...
...Throw your spirit and energy into denouncing such programs," said Piven. She criticized a labor security bill, proposed by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), which includes a national workfair program. Such programs require participants to fulfill educational and employment requirements in order to receive payments...
Another member, Rep. Bill McCollum, (R-Fla.), said he disagrees with the committee's majority, which he said concluded in the report that while Reagan's political appointees made errors, the system of governing that Reagan set up was not to blame...