Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundred reporters and one Radcliffe extern had been waiting for half-an-hour in the end of a corridor intersecting President Reagan's route to the old Senate chamber. There, he planned to lobby 13 recalcitrant Republicans who had voted to override his veto of the $87.9 billion highway bill. We hoped he would conclude his mission before lunchtime...
...Thursday morning, the third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what was in the bill by now, and few had even read its entire convoluted text...
Reagan may have responded appropriately to the foreign affairs scandal by kicking the rascals out, but he still has a lot more cleaning to do, for other equally devious rascals feel much too safe in Washington. Ultimately, however, Reagan's biggest problem--as the case of the drug bill shows--is his own proclivity toward demagoguery and hypocrisy. His own subordinates have merely been following his example...
...real Harvard hockey team didn't show up this weekend," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said after the Crimson fell to Minnesota, 6-3, in the consolation game...
Although Harvard Coach Bill Cleary claimed that this year's squad was a team with no superstars, the Crimson did have some fine players who turned in fine years. Tim Barakett played in every game this year to extend his consecutive game streak to 127, a Harvard and ECAC record. Barakett--who was named second-team ECAC--finished his career with 134 points (55 goals, 79 assists), good enough for 11th place on Harvard's all-time scoring chart...