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Congress itself, of course, has ample power to check spending through the appropriation process. The House is stymied nonetheless because the Senate is more openhanded with cash than the lower chamber, and most Representatives want to dodge responsibility for retrenching important domestic programs. For its part, the Administration has said that it intends to slice perhaps $2 billion out of the current year's budget-but only after it knows how much Congress is appropriating overall. This is too little, too late and too vague for many House members...
...weren't fans, we were spectators plugged into a WHDH announcer whose voice sounded like breakfast, and worse yet, into distant, unimportant football games. Notre Dame vs. Purdue. How are the Boilermakers doing? Yanked back and forth in this echo chamber, one received a startling impression of America on a Saturday afternoon. A vast vacuum crossed only by baseballs, footballs, and flying hysterics...
...other extreme are the candidates who resemble Chamber of Commerce Bostonian and New Boston architect John F. Collins, the city's outgoing mayor. Former Redevelopment Administrator Edward J. Logue. Logue, who is not a native Bostonian, sees the city as most outsiders do. He'd like to keep on building and revitalizing the downtown and Back Bay Central Business Districts, the old port of Boston, and other decaying neighborhoods close to the city's center...
...called to be a fourth at bridge for Lynda and two friends. The foursome soon shrank to a twosome. They spent the Labor Day holiday together outside Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on a stretch of sand known popularly as "Whisky Beach" or "the Passion Pit," which the Chamber of Commerce now wants renamed more decorously in honor of their courtship...
...this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best pal as well as his persecutor. But he no longer cares; he would rather earn kingly status, even if the price is the gas chamber...