Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caught in red tape. At a House hearing on the homeless last week, Paul Wright of the General Accounting Office, Congress's audit agency, said most of the money had been spent on routine base maintenance. "What the Defense Department did was to rob the poor box," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York...
...family cliches of Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Today's mobster, in both Italy and the U.S., is greedier, meaner and less likely to respect the Mafia's internal code of honor than were the Mafiosi in the generation of his father's father (see box). Officials on both sides of the Atlantic consider Buscetta's break with the Mob a significant gain for law enforcement, which has thus far had only limited success in getting those who really know about Mafia operations to talk about them...
...Followers of Ronald Reagan should be flattered by the obvious acute observation Mr. Mulroney has made of the President's political success. Like Mr. Reagan's deficit policy, Mr. Mulroney's leap towards the center turned conservative dogma on its ear but it made an impact in the ballot box...
Entertainment cable channels like Home Box Office, Showtime, and Music Television (MTV) could be making their debut in Harvard dormitories as soon as spring...
...stay for life.* The high court that begins its traditional nine-month term this week is a gerontocracy: five of the nine Justices are 75 or older. Not since Franklin Roosevelt railed against the Nine Old Men almost 50 years ago have the Justices been so aged (see box...