Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Student leaders and school administrators said they were encouraged by the Senate action, but were quick to note that no such concessions have been made across the Capitol. The House of Representatives yesterday passed a balanced-budget bill, which still includes severe cuts in federal...
...REPRESENTATIVE DON YOUNG OF Alaska ever decides to raise some extra income, he can always lease out his Capitol Hill office as a wildlife museum. A former trapper and riverboat captain, he works surrounded by his trophies: the heads of a ram and a wild boar, mounted moose horns and the prime exhibit, a towering Kodiak bear that he bagged on a hunting trip back home. You could say he was a man with a hands-on appreciation of nature. Or you could say he's a guy who prefers his wildlife dead...
...case you didn't recognize it, that's the sound of the Western-state rebellion as it rumbles into the Beltway. With it comes the region's ancient resentment of Washington's rule, the same discontent that has gone national in recent years. It also brings to Capitol Hill the West's most abiding issue, the land: who owns it, how to use it and who decides. Translated into Washington terms, that means ever more heated politics of the environment, as Western lawmakers tear through two decades of regulations. They are doing it with such success that many moderate Republicans...
...march drew near, trains, planes and automobiles converged on the District, and officials planned for 11,000 buses--enough to hold half a million men--with 1,600 of them chartered in New York City alone. D.C. authorities ordered additional security for the Mall in front of the Capitol, where the speeches would take place, and scrambled to find enough water, parking spaces and portable toilets to accommodate the throng. People around the country were arguing about whether to attend the march, and organizers from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam were tight-lipped about who would be speaking and what...
Black men did not come to Washington to ask for handouts from the government. Black men did not come to the nation's capitol to gripe and complain or to ask someone to solve their problems for them. Black men did not unite to foster hatred of any other ethnic groups, nor to engender sexism...