Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the committee presented its constitution on Sept. 12, the delegates eagerly began trying to change things all over again, in ways large and small. Mason of Virginia declared for the first time that summer that there should be a bill of rights. He was voted down by ten states to none. Madison wanted a statement that Congress should create a national university, and Franklin wanted it authorized to dig canals, but they were both voted down...
...prove they were not hopelessly divided and terminally ineffectual. They were determined to show that they could work together, make policy and lead the nation -- in short, that they deserved to take over the White House after 1988. They made a bravura start, quickly passing a clean-water bill over the President's veto and approving the $88 billion highway bill over another Reagan veto. The Republicans, shell-shocked by the midterm election loss and defensive over the Iran-contra affair, were reduced to the role of helpless spectators...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee was on the brink of voting on a bill that would halt the reflagging. But after a lengthy conference with Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, the panel decided to delay the vote until this week. "We need a few more days to think about it," said Chairman Claiborne Pell, a Rhode Island Democrat...
...that you always have plenty of them about you, and few, if any, sound thinkers. Sound thinkers appear on television; sycophants award them prizes for sound thinking. Eccentrics have a sound of their own, like the wild Englishman Lord Berners, who invited a horse to tea, or less extravagantly, Bill Russell, who played basketball to meet only his own standards of excellence. Russell told his daughter that he never heard the boos of the crowd because he never heard the cheers -- no easy feat in an age pumped up by windbags and Kirkus Reviews. Your commencement speaker hopes that...
...Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...