Word: buster
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That prediction seemed borne out later in the week when leaders of the 100th Congress called at the White House to discuss domestic policy. Reagan opened by pledging to veto as a "budget buster" a $20 billion clean-water bill that passed both houses of Congress by overwhelming margins. House Speaker Jim Wright and Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd told the President they thought they had the votes to override; on Friday, Reagan vetoed the bill anyway. Byrd pressed Reagan to call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn...
...including seafoam lime Jell-O mold with marshmallows and Mary Bobo's carrot casserole, a concoction made with Ritz crackers and melted cheese. It should be noted that the Sterns and Fussell give quite different recipes for New Orleans red beans and rice, yet both are credited to Buster Holmes, operator of the famous French Quarter greasy spoon. Quite possibly the old master cook never makes that dish the same way twice, which is why there probably cannot be, as the Sterns suggest, a last word on the subject...
...original James Bond, but Sean Connery had his hands full playing Malone, the broguish cop in The Untouchables, which finished shooting last week in Chicago. "It's pretty cumbersome," says Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed Al Capone. In the film, for example, Capone, played by Robert...
...disturbing case was by no means the first attack on U.S. narcotics officers in Guadalajara, Mexico's third largest city. In October 1984 gunfire peppered a DEA agent's car while it was parked in front of his Guadalajara home. Four months later another U.S. drug buster, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted in the same city. His corpse was found the following month in a plastic bag. While dozens of police officers were dismissed or jailed in the wake of the murder, Washington claims many other suspects remain at large. U.S. officials say Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a drug lord...
...Review's Flanagan says that McLaughlin "has to get some backbone." Sitting beneath a framed photo of Richard M. Nixon, the conservative student leader and former shanty-buster told The Crimson that the President's lack of leadership and "inability to lay down a law and stick by it" typified his administrative policy...