Word: carolina
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Arizona thus became the fifth state in recent months to be tainted by a legislative corruption scandal. In South Carolina, 10 legislators have been indicted in a vote-selling scheme. In California two former state senators were convicted on corruption charges last year. Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House, has been accused of soliciting and not reporting a gift. In New York, Assembly Speaker Mel Miller has pleaded innocent to charges that he was involved in an alleged real estate scam...
...next few days, if not later, in any case sometime this month." But some Congressmen attending a closed-door briefing by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell last week came away with a different impression. As Democratic Representative John Spratt of South Carolina put it, "I didn't get the sense anybody is pushing for a hurry-up ground...
...opposed by hometown automakers. And defenders of the environment can still turn up on both sides of the aisle. On Aug. 4, two days after the invasion of Kuwait, the House voted 281 to 82 effectively to ban for one year any drilling for natural gas along North Carolina's Outer Banks, one of the nation's largest untapped energy reserves...
After attending Cambridge University together, Gates and Appiah both taught at Yale University. Then they went to Cornell University. Then they went to Duke. The two have taught at the North Carolina school for little over one year...
...politicians argued that new taxes were needed to finance the fighting. "We've got to live in the real world and start paying our bill," said Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith advocated a surcharge on annual incomes greater than $100,000. "Some of our poorest people are fighting the war," Galbraith said. "I would like to see our richest people pay for it. It would be a fine expression of democratic will...