Word: desks
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Clinton said last week that if the Stark plan crossed his desk, he would sign it "because it does what I ask." But that is unlikely to happen. House and Ways Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski predicts that the bill that will ultimately pass muster with his 38-member panel will be "much more conservative" than Stark's plan. Though two Senate committees and three House committees are now jockeying for the spotlight, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Finance Committee is expected to emerge as the final arbiter of compromise. The question is just how badly the Hill's titans will...
...action in foreign policy, through the breakup of the Soviet empire and the unification of Germany, will be in the book that he and former aide Brent Scowcroft are doing. It is hard, confining work for Bush. He lifts a 350-page mound of manuscript off his small desk and notes that on top are two pages of comments and suggestions by his Knopf editors. He sighs...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, + Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
When we finally navigated our way into the hotel, dragging our luggage on the asphalt on the way, we encountered an unfriendly desk attendant. She wouldn't talk to us until our leader came in from parking...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...