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...actors cast in these smaller roles team up in the second act for an amusing group vocal performance of "Slips Away," which they sing as the beaten Hoss lies catatonic on the floor. Clad in 50's-style tuxedo jackets, Buttaro, Baptiste, Kiser and John Byrd (Hoss' friend, Cheyenne) perform this absolute best of all The Tooth of Crime's songs...
...amendments to the Clean Air Act of 1970, which has been altered only once, in 1977. Democrats blamed the lack of progress on the Reagan White House, and with much justice; Bush's plan marks his sharpest break yet from the policies of his predecessor. But Democrats Robert Byrd, the former Senate majority leader, and John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also blocked legislation, in deference to the fears of miners of high-sulfur coal in Byrd's West Virginia and automakers and -workers in Dingell's Michigan...
...fish and fortunes. The competitors were equipped with the latest in sonar and trolling motors, the better to pursue their wily prey. When the anglers returned to shore, crowds gasped in excitement as judges weighed the catch and flashed the results on a digital screen. The winner, Robert Byrd of Zwolle, La., brought in 60.7 lbs. of bass in just three days. His prize: $33,000 in cash and merchandise, part of a total purse...
...stands for sucker," jeered Alan Dixon of Illinois. Decrying Japan's conquest of "industry after industry," West Virginia's Robert Byrd said, "We have to send a message to our own wimpy diplomats that we're not going to take it lying down anymore." Despite such rhetoric in last week's floor debate, the Senate approved the joint U.S.-Japan FSX jet-fighter project, provided the President agrees to an accompanying resolution that would clip its wings slightly. The Byrd amendment requires that U.S.-based General Dynamics get 40% of the estimated $6 billion project, the portion that includes confidential...
Bush thinks such caveats are unnecessary and could still scuttle the program. Republicans are calling the Byrd resolution a "sour-grape amendment" from those Democrats who lost the vote to kill the whole deal. But the Senate vote, 72 to 27, provided a large enough margin to override a veto. Whether the plane ever takes off or not, the Japan-bashing rhetoric remains in full flight...