Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: National Endowment for the Arts advocates saw their agency take a step closer to extinction today after the House slashed the $10 million remaining in the NEA budget and voted overwhelmingly to block the states from inheriting the agency's grant-making powers. Left without a penny for even a kindergarten fingerpainting show, defenders of the grant-making agency are looking to the Senate and President Clinton to help keep their agency alive. Republican senator Slade Gorton, chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, has indicated a willingness to fund the agency with at least $99.5 million next year. Republican...
...broadened to include Vince Foster's suicide, the White House travel-office firings, the Administration's possible misuse of FBI files and several other matters--Starr has obtained 12 convictions and guilty pleas. But nearly three years and more than $30 million later, the American public is little closer to understanding the circumstances and import of the original land deals. Questions about whether the Clintons and their loyalists lied or otherwise covered up the truth remain unresolved. Starr hasn't even delivered his long-overdue report on Foster's death, though it's likely to be issued within two weeks...
...roots in the cornfields east of St. Louis, Mo., more than a century ago, and today wears its heritage from storefront to storefront: Krupp Florist, Schnuck's Grocery, Dueker Chiropractic. In this tidy community of Moose lodges and brick churches, even the gas stations are nicely landscaped. But look closer, and gambling seems to have sneaked in everywhere--and not just because the riverboat casino of East St. Louis is docked 14 miles away. The gambling rage has also come through the video-poker machines in the local taverns, bowling alleys and American Legion halls. Under Illinois law these establishments...
...White-elephant plants like these all over northeast China account for less than half of the total economy but still employ two-thirds of the labor force. Beijing insists the national unemployment rate is only 3%, but no one believes that. In Shenyang some guess the real rate is closer to 20%. "China has 1,000 terms for unemployment," notes a Western diplomat. Most of the jobless are said to be "waiting for a new post" or "awaiting retirement" or "relocated for internal digestion...
...from a group of rapacious hunters--are undercut by some laughably inane fieldwork. They take close-up photos of the beasts with incredibly noisy cameras that are bound to startle any dino into a frenzy; they kidnap a T. rex baby to mend its leg while Big Mama prowls closer. It's knaves vs. fools in the Jurassic jungle...