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...Wild Bill" Clay was called a militant when he went to Congress 28 years ago. The first African-American legislator from Missouri, he is still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...
...three-member commission decides that club personnel acted improperly, they can "cancel, suspend, revoke or further condition" all of the licenses held by Cranston Inc., Scali said
...that question before images of the battered and dying and you risk seeming indifferent to grief. But not to ask it opens the way to aesthetic blackmail, allowing the fact of suffering to cancel your doubts about the pictures that convey it. Or try to. Goldin has felt the blows of the past decade or so as hard as anybody. You wish sometimes that her work were as acute as her pain...
Morgan said the authority to cancel the Regatta, now in its 32nd year, rests with BankBoston, the race's corporate sponsor. An EPA prohibition on boating on the Charles would have the same effect, he said...
...Republican representatives attended an alternative orientation sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in Baltimore in 1994, forcing IOP officials to cancel the event...