Word: capitol
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...stop putting astronauts aboard, a privilege costing NASA about $472 million over five years. These funds have helped bail out the strapped Russian Space Agency, which NASA wants to keep as a major player in the upcoming International Space Station. But the Russian-American partnership is in trouble on Capitol Hill, and only last week presidential science adviser John Gibbons re-emphasized that a decision to send Foale's replacement up in late September won't be made until it's clear Mir has enough electricity for the slate of microgravity experiments planned by NASA. Says Gibbons: "If they...
...announced in May that it was closing its New York office, and, in the process, getting rid of some of the people he had depended on over the years to market his albums, Brooks decided to withhold his new record indefinitely. Jimmy Bowen, a former head of EMI-Capitol Nashville who worked with Brooks before leaving his post in 1995, predicts the singer will iron out his differences with the label in time to get the CD out by late fall. Says Bowen: "Nobody wins if [Brooks] keeps it in house, including...
...they all came together bearing gifts: interns whooped and staff members grinned on the White House lawn as the President basked in the ultimate triumph of his long march to the center, which almost none of the cheering Democrats behind him had backed. Down the street on the Capitol steps, Republican lawmakers and a flock of Boy Scouts with balloons gathered around the nearly deposed Newt Gingrich and the newly grandiloquent Trent Lott, who declared, "Today we celebrate the beginning of a new era of freedom." And his was about the most modest toast...
...been told only that it was a few blocks from the state capitol and that it was one of Bill Clinton's favorite places for lunch when the Great Scarfer was Governor. I somehow even missed its name. Given Trie's eagerness to please, though, I suspect he chose a name designed to make some of those Arkansas legislators from places like Mount Ida and Ash Flat feel as comfortable as they could in an Oriental setting--maybe something like the Jade Goober...
Republicans on Capitol Hill were pleased that Clinton dropped some of the more controversial parts of the Hope Scholarship program. The scholarship originally required students to maintain a B average, but the new law contains no GPA requirement...