Word: democratic
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With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...
Like a drowning swimmer, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat went down last week for the third time, taking 350 employees with it. The 134-year-old newspaper (circ. 146,432) is not expected to surface again. The financially troubled daily almost closed in 1983 and ceased publication last year for two months. Current Owners William Franke and John Prentis sought $15 million in industrial revenue bonds to finance a new building, buy presses and meet operating costs, luring investors with the promise that if the paper defaulted, they could deduct the loss from their state taxes. But a local lawyer...
...became one of the nation's most prestigious journals in the late 19th and early 20th century. More recently it has reflected Publisher Prentis' born-again Fundamentalism in its editorials. St. Louis joins the swelling ranks of one-newspaper towns; the surviving Post- Dispatch has about twice the Globe-Democrat's circulation...
...Force's opinion did not deter the New York politicians from decrying the potential loss of 1,200 Long Island jobs and launching a "Save the T-46A" drive. The campaign climaxed in the Senate, where Republican Alphonse D'Amato and Democrat Daniel Moynihan teamed up to stage a 23 1/2-hr. filibuster in the closing days of the congressional session. They stalled passage of an omnibus spending bill long enough so that the Government began running out of funds and half a million federal workers had to be sent home. Their lost time cost taxpayers an estimated $62 million...
...before firing 5,000 rounds, while another cracked at 7,000. By contrast, the Beretta triggered 8,800 rounds without a mishap. After the Army signed a contract for 300,000 Berettas, which would be produced at the company's Accokeek, Md., plant for $75 million, Massachusetts Congressmen, including Democrat Edward Boland and Republican Silvio Conte, sought to reopen bids for a second batch of pistols, this time for 206,000. Congress compromised, forcing the Army to test the Smith & Wesson yet again...