Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the Justice Department can flail its arms and scream from the top of Capitol Hill that there's less drug use on the fruited plain, junkies still find more and more drugs to take. According to NIDA, emergency room-cases stemming from cocaine abuse increased 29.3%, and heroin, which is now nearing 100% purity levels in most large Eastern cities, was responsible for a 9.7% increase in such emergencies...
...Thursday," said Dick, without comment, "the editors decided to do a health cover this week." Working all night, he secured the detailed proposals by 8 a.m. Friday. Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame wrote the main news story with reporting from Laurence Barrett on early reaction to the plan on Capitol Hill...
After months of wrangling on Capitol Hill, the Senate passed a compromise version of President Clinton's national service bill last Wednesday, clearing the final hurdle for the implementation of the $1.5 billion program...
When the going gets tough, pundits and politicians seem to head for the hills. As unrest and strife continue in southern Mogadishu, calls for an end to the United States commitment to the United Nations operation in Somalia mount. From Capitol Hill, Senators Robert Dole and Robert Byrd question why we're there. In an editorial, The New York Times ponders whether it's time to come home. Former President Jimmy Carter lambastes the violence of the United Nations forces...
Although the Vice President was never part of the Capitol Hill backslapping club, he was respected by most, and retains his power of persuasion there. One morning just as legislative director Howard Paster had got a difficult House Democrat on the line for the President, Gore walked in, took the phone and softened up the Congressman by reminding him of a fund raiser Gore had for him in 1988. Oftimes when congressional leaders call the Oval Office, Clinton uses the speakerphone and puts Gore on. In a walk-up to the first budget vote, Gore spent only five minutes...