Word: bill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...battles. Since the start of the 100th Congress in January, the Democrats have snatched the political agenda from the Republicans. In addition to forming two special committees to investigate Iranscam, the resurgent Democrats have been challenging Reagan on Central American policy, arms control, taxes, trade issues, the clean-water bill, aid for the homeless. As the White House hunkered down, G.O.P. congressional unity started crumbling. , "The effect was devastating," said Representative Lynn Martin of Illinois, vice chairman of the House Republican conference. "We were sort of helpless. A Carter malaise had struck Republicans...
...G.O.P. presidential nomination next year, is already sounding warnings about the conciliatory tone at the White House. "We can call summits with the Soviets and the Democrats, or we can move out with the Reagan agenda," says Kemp. "If the White House sits down to write a trade bill or a budget in a summit with Bob Byrd or Jim Wright, it's over." When the President met last week with a delegation of conservative Senators, he listed as his legislative priorities the deployment of Star Wars, a balanced-budget amendment and prohibition of abortion. While that...
Last November, Vestron Pictures, a new Connecticut-based film company, agreed to put up roughly half the money, thanks largely to its executives' interest in Irish literature; the rest of the backing came from Europe. "It's a risk for us, of course," says Vestron Vice President Bill Quigley. "But we consider it one for the soul." For Huston it is one from the heart. Although the story has been expanded to fit the new medium, the director insists it remains faithful to the source. "I don't think that Joyce's spirit would raise its head in holy horror...
Shortly before Bill Clements took office as Governor of Texas in January, he named a Dallas clergyman as his staff adviser on matters of morality. The appointment was unusual but not all that surprising: Clements has talked a lot about morality...
...arcane that few even know it exists, this counts as a world-class event: the first East Coast Convention of Cumann na bPiobairi, the national Irish Pipers' Club -- and what is a little discomfort? The novices are eager to hobnob with such superstars as Al Purcell, from Detroit; Bill Ochs, Jerry O'Sullivan and Matt Connolly, out of New York; and Denis Brooks, all the way from Seattle. For the pros, it is a chance to trade techniques, tunes and gossip saved since they last...