Word: coulds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethics-reform legislation would bar House members from accepting fees for speeches, but they could suggest their hosts pass on up to $2,000 in the member's name to a charity of the member's choice. The bill requires members to reveal the donor but not the destination of the money...
Income earned outside the House would be limited to 15 percent of salary beginning in 1991. Members could not receive directors' fees, legal fees or other income for professional services. Book royalties would remain exempt from the limits but with new restrictions...
...Senate could give itself a smaller raise, as it did earlier this decade. Senators were paid less than House members for about six months seven years ago before senators approved a catch-up raise...
Markers, scorpions, the code, sideways killers and gypsies are all names Shepard tosses around in his version of the dog-eat-dog world of rock and roll. But what these terms mean never really becomes clear; The Tooth of Crime could be about some sort of competition between rival gangsters or even drag racers. Uncertain references to knives, guns, engines and a deejay cloud the action...
...other problem is that Harvard, already under investigation for collusion, would be under the tight scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The University could surely smooth things over with Washington by dispensing honorary degrees to every top-ranking member of the Bush administration...