Word: bill
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Still, Congress signaled its basic approval of the President's AIDS program. By a 96-to-0 vote last week the Senate amended a $9.4 billion supplemental- appropriations bill to require the testing of immigrants; entry will be denied to those found to have been exposed to the AIDS virus. The Senate also approved $77 million for anti-AIDS programs. The House is expected to pass a similar measure later this year...
...Barnacle Bill the Sailor is not about to be caught looking like a privileged idler. On his 30-day haul from Hawaii to Papua New Guinea in June 1985, his seabag included manuscripts, stacks of correspondence and a portable computer on which he wrote letters, articles and, it is suggested, portions of a Blackford Oakes novel. Buckley's boatmates, too, seemed eager not to appear that they were getting away from it all. In addition to sharing sailing duties with a paid crew, the author and three of his companions stood literary watch. Evan Galbraith, a former ambassador to France...
...that it isn't appreciated. People have been known to wash their own dishes. Most everyone makes change at the cash register, paying the bill unassisted, unobserved, as the cafe talk rolls on in a relaxed, little- village-stuck-in-time...
...sitting in a coffee shop during an outing in Montana when a local rancher in a Stetson and faded jeans suddenly recognized him and ( ambled up. It looked as if the cowboy might be aiming to pick a fight over monetary policy, but instead he pulled out a $10 bill and asked Volcker to autograph...
Saul Bellow' s More Die of Heartbreak finds comedy in the torments of the hypereducated man. -- Bill Buckley sets sail again...