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...other revenue sources. Standard & Poor's has shaken up investors by placing many of California's bonds on its "credit watch" list. Land developers, corporations, investment banks and labor unions are expected to spend $2 million to fight the proposal. Says John Hay, president of the California Chamber of Commerce: "It's a can of worms, horribly flawed, poorly written and researched." Jarvis calls his opponents "clowns" and "turkeys," branding their arguments "crapola." A poll last week showed the battle over Proposition 36 too close to call...
Addressing the annual Chamber of Commerce luncheon last week. Peterkin emphasized that he will work to strengthen the bonds between Cambridge schools and the city's businesses and universities...
...government ministers took aim at the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID), the U.S.-based organization accused of funneling money and arms to the I.R.A. "The bomb," noted a Daily Mirror editorial, "may have been planted by an Irish terrorist, but the fingerprints upon it were American." Addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe warned the "misguided minority of Irish Americans [that] they are supporting and promoting terrorism." Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Charles H. Price promised to ask American law-enforcement agencies to take every possible action against NORAID. He pointed out, though, that...
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...
...show progresses--familiar songs all along, cliches and stereotypes rarely surmounted--the "chamber musical" conception offers us something akin to the one-night stands it so shamelessly portrays. Fun, entertainment, mirth: we get all of this, but nothing more. We know our lovers want their dessert, we suspect some fulfillment of those desires, but is that...