Word: cannibalisme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While that was the announcement the House had been anticipating for days, the packed chamber saved its applause for the moment when the Speaker, the first ever to be forced from office by allegations of misconduct, begged for an end to the hostilities in Congress. Fist clenched, he thundered, "Both...
Moments before House Speaker Jim Wright launched into his resignation speech last week, his nemesis Newt Gingrich was seen merrily whistling through the halls of Congress. When Democrats and then Republicans stood to applaud Wright's denunciation of "mindless cannibalism," Gingrich rose to his feet only grudgingly, hands jammed into...
NATION: Wright hits "cannibalism" over ethics, but the real scandal in Congress is the legal grab for cash
Washington lawmakers readily recognize the populist sentiments aroused by the spectacle. "What's going on is corporate cannibalism," says Congressman Edward Markey. "We have to ask whether it is in the national interest to allow companies to go so heavily into debt." As chairman of a House subcommittee that covers...
African Madness is a terse testament to wanderlust. The book recounts four trips that Alex Shoumatoff, a staff writer for The New Yorker, made to that continent in 1986 and '87. As he notes in his preface, "My vision of the tropics was, and still is, largely romantic." This mood...