Word: capitol
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Richmond might as well be Indian-apolis or Des Moines. Of course the old monuments are still around-Robert E. Lee's home and Thomas Jefferson's graceful state capitol-but they have no effect on the modern city. The city appears as all-American as any medium-sized integrated city in the nation. The whites are moving to suburbia-toward Chesterfield and Ashland in the north and west-while the blacks are coming into the city seeking work from the nearby Southside. The lower middle-class whites resent the blacks, but can do little about it except vote...
...such political transmogrifications, which struck others as a trifle manic. "Change," he once observed, "is inherent to life. The only persons who don't change are dead, or involuntarily confined in mental hospitals." More than an ideologue, Dirksen was a total and masterly politician. His 35 years on Capitol Hill equipped him with intricate parliamentary skills, and his basic instincts were conciliatory. "The oilcan is mightier than the sword," he believed. Moreover, from his first days in Washington until his death, his primary concern went to the heart of public policy...
...Capitol by a Glacier. Besides the windfall from the leases, Alaska will collect a 12½% royalty and a 4% "severance tax" on every barrel of oil taken out. Inventing ways to spend the wealth, in fact, has become a favored pastime. Alaskans have variously suggested building a bridge to Siberia, distributing the cash equally among the citizenry, and building a much-discussed new state capitol beside the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. More soberly, the Legislative Council has commissioned The Brookings Institution to recommend how best to invest the interest that the money will earn, and Governor Miller has asked...
Second Enemy. NATO claims that 9,000,000 Americans have signed its petitions, and 21 Congressmen have drafted bills to ban subscription TV. So far, the proposed legislation has not stirred much interest on Capitol Hill. NATO's other resort is a suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit contesting the authority of any FCC licensing...
...negotiations never start or they drag on for several years without accomplishing anything. The Soviet Union will wait to see how much they can get before they sit down." McNamara, when he argued for arms control and against certain weapons projects, often provided a counterweight to civilian militarism on Capitol Hill. Today the balance is tipped sharply so that opposition to the military, particularly in the Senate, threatens to go to the opposite extreme. While the new skepticism can have healthy results in terms of a more realistic defense structure, it can also degenerate into indiscriminate slashing of military strength...