Word: catches
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Bush argues that because he is obliged to live in the Government house, he is caught in an unfair catch-22. Why did he not reveal his tax troubles months ago? "You didn't ask me about it," offered Bush. His dispute came to light last week when he released his recent federal income tax returns. For the past three years, the Bushes had a gross income of $810,000, of which they paid 37% in federal income tax, which is about average for people in their tax bracket...
...what did Congress do? Miss all three deadlines, naturally. On Monday, it renewed Government spending authority for three days; on Thursday, it renewed the renewal until 6 p.m. Friday. But House and Senate conferees could not agree by then on the provisions of a catch-all $460 billion "continuing resolution" to fund the Government for a whole year. So Congress gave itself another extension until Tuesday of this week, when the legislators will have to return to deal with the measure. Barring a presidential veto, which would force still another session, the 98th Congress will then pass into history, leaving...
Long hours (all night in the Senate Wednesday), obstructionist tactics and partisan maneuvering caused many tempers to snap. "Shame on the Senate! Shame on the Senate!" cried Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy after the upper chamber dropped the civil rights bill. Barry Goldwater stormed that because of haggling over the catch-all spending bill, Senators collectively were "beginning to look like jackasses"; his Republican colleague, Wyoming's Malcolm Wallop, wondered why the Arizonan had only said "beginning." In the House, Democrat James Jones embarrassed the G.O.P. by introducing a plan requiring Presidents to submit each year a budget proposal that...
Western experts generally agree that the Soviets still trail the U.S. in key technological areas, including electronics, microminiaturization and computers, but they are moving aggressively to catch...
...took a specutacular twisting catch in dead center field by Chet Lemon to end San Diego's final hope in the seventh inning...