Word: byrds
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...train, which deposits visitors at the boat, was designed to bypass the heart of East St. Louis, which even now has large tracts of urban desolation and 1,700 abandoned buildings.. "You have not seen a lot of gambling revenue trickle into the neighborhood," says community activist Alandra Byrd. But the casino has set up a $2.5 million foundation to provide low-interest business loans and grants to community groups. Average salary on the boat is $25,000 plus benefits, and no job pays less than $5 an hour...
...legislation allows the President to veto specific spending measures contained in larger spending bills. After signing an appropriations measure, the President has five days to prepare a list of specific line-items to veto. The Congress could then vote again on the slate of selected line-items. Senator Robert Byrd led the Senate opposition, saying it ceded legislative authority to the executive branch, and predicted that the Supreme Court would rule the law unconstitutional. Approval of a line-item veto was one of the Repulicans' cherished provisions in their Contract With America, and many U.S. presidents have asked for line...
Yarger 3-5 4-4 11; Byrd 7-13 8-9 22; Giroux...
...least a few powerful Senators on the Appropriations Committee will miss them. Senators Daniel Inouye and Robert Byrd, intrigued by stories of psychic successes, pushed hard during many years to keep Star Gate going. Tales of the effectiveness of psychics as spies have long been circulated. dia credited psychics with creating accurate pictures of Soviet submarine construction hidden from U.S. spy satellites, and a 1993 Pentagon report said psychics had correctly drawn 20 tunnels being built in North Korea near the demilitarized zone. "I'd close my eyes and clear everything from my mind," explains Joe McMoneagle, a Pentagon psychic...
DIED. LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD, 98, geologist; in Tucson, Arizona. From 1928 to 1930, Gould trekked across part of Antarctica as second-in-command to Richard Byrd on Byrd's first expedition to the continent. Today maps of Antarctica are replete with Gould's name: Mount Gould, Gould Bay, Gould Glacier, Gould Coast...