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...beds! Three engineering apprenticeships donated by the Greater Manchester Council! Western boots for Charles, Western chaps for Diana, both from Texas and both from Anne Arm strong, the former American ambassador! A herb garden for Highgrove from the Cranleigh Group of Women's Institutes in Surrey! A lace cushion from the Royal School of Needlework! Two cases of specially blended 'C and D' malt whisky from Macallans Distillery! And - wait until you ladies see this - from Geba, in Germany, kitchen furnishings for every culinary pursuit you can imagine, valued at a grand total...
...general outlines of that revolution are clear-and striking-enough. The mammoth budget bills, passed by Senate and House just before the July Fourth congressional recess, reverse the direction in which Government domestic policy has been heading since 1933. After almost 50 years of expanding federal spending to cushion the poor, elderly and disadvantaged against the shocks of economic life, Washington will reduce both the numbers of people who qualify to participate in federal social programs and, in many cases, the size of the benefits they receive. The goal is to reduce federal nonmilitary spending by nearly $40 billion...
...flagstone is my only cushion, But Pushkin, sitting in one corner, Sings me a song...
...folks at Draper Lab have a cushion between what they see as their work and the reality of nuclear weapons: it's not Draper Lab that decides to build these things, it's the government. The Lab pictures itself as the neutral link between the partisan decision to build nuclear weapons and the partisan decision to use them. And though it depends on whom they're talking to, the Lab would like to deny that their guidance systems steer missiles at all. Draper's security chief did just that, in fact, last August at the trial in Middlesex County Court...
...proposal to increase the amount of annual income that a worker not covered by a company pension plan can save in a tax-sheltered individual retirement account (IRA) from $1,500 to $2,000, and to extend IRA opportunities to employees with pension plans who want an extra retirement cushion...