Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the sound of the squawking of the Cabinet secretaries, one would have thought that something serious was under discussion. But when Janet Reno, Donna Shalala and company testified before a Senate committee this week about a lurking threat to every program they administer, it was just more of the exaggerated conceit that never seems far from a debate on the balanced budget amendment...
...neither the Attorney General nor any other Cabinet officer will anytime in the near future have to countenance any cuts--draconian or otherwise--as a result of the amendment, which, as part of a new yearly ritual, will come to a vote in the Senate this Tuesday. It is not that the balanced budget amendment will not pass the Senate by the required two-thirds majority (the odds are about even on that), nor is it that the proposal wouldn't carry the 38 states necessary for ratification (it probably would); the Balanced Budget Amendment, if passed, will never result...
Reductions in cherished social programs will be just as tough for many Clintonites to swallow. As Cabinet Secretaries have trooped into the Oval Office to meet with the President in recent weeks, each has faced major disappointments. To raise extra cash to finance AIDS research, childhood immunizations, Head Start and increased job training, Clinton plans to reduce funding for everything from public housing to mass transit to assistance for the poor to help heat their homes. All told, the budget calls for 118,000 fewer civilian workers on the federal payroll by Sept. 30, 1995, than when Clinton took office...
...famous Worcester personalities such as Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Revolutionary War (wicked cool); Abbie Hoffman, founder of the Youth International Party of the 1960s (wicked, wicked cool); and Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve as a member of a presidential cabinet and the namesake of Frances "Baby" Houseman, the Jennifer Grey character in Dirty Dancing (wicked cool lady, wicked cool movie...
...could go on, but you see you are reaching your destination, so you decide to hit your date with the most impressive information of all: the Dead Sea Scrolls were at one point housed in Worcester, in a cabinet in a red brick house on Aylesbury St. As every good Worcester resident knows, a Lebanese family who lived in Worcester had possession of part of the Scrolls in between the discovery of the Scrolls in Jordan and their eventual return to Israel...