Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Voters determined to send a letter bomb to the state legislature seem to have been more swayed by the second argument, professing loudly their belief that the legislators will surely come through with the money needed to prevent layoffs and cutbacks. But the Massachusetts legislature acts in the public interest only once a year, and that's the day it votes to adjourn and return to their law offices for the summer. This legislature has never been a great friend of tax reform--they created the present system and they have maintained it ever since, for a very simple reason...
...need a much more sophisticated plan than we have now," Spearman says. "As it is, it is as if we are behind in a football game and we want to throw the 'bomb' to catch up. Unfortunately, we don't have the wide receivers to catch that 'bomb.' Senate representation is a prerequisite to lobbying for statehood...
...vice president had so little to do he left Washington for a summer to run an inn, Lyndon B. Johnson headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
...played host to the American Society of Travel Agents', a convention Marcos deemed crucial to Philippines' flagging economy and image. Although ASTA members had received a warning last month signed by the most visible anti-Marcos group--the April 6 Liberation Movement, which claimed credit for many of the bombings during the autumn--Marcos gave impassioned personal guarantees of safety to the travel agents. These importunations prevailed enough to draw 3500 delegates to Manila, which had taken two years to prepare for the event. The dictator wrapped the visitors in an imposing cloak of security, giving an impression of impenetrability...
...extradite three Chilean military officers to the District of Columbia. Small wonder that he should have justified the Court's action, for this decision frustrated an important U.S. legal initiative. It precluted the trial of these officers in the District for their alleged role in the September 1976 car-bombing assassination of Orlando Letelier, a highly vocal Chilean exile with diplomatic status, and Ronni Moffitt, an American citizen riding in the front seat of Mr. Letelier's car when a bomb exploded beneath the steering wheel...