Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...section leaders expressed their disappointment with the cancellation, saying it was a letdown for them after all of the preparation they have done. They said they had enjoyed working with Engell on the course when it was last offered two years...
...pork-barrel expenditures included in the last omnibus spending bill, signed just before winter recess, range from the slightly humorous--$240,000 for a study of the damage done to macademia nuts by rats--to the seriously expensive--$25 million for an unneeded new airport in Fort Worth near the home territory Speaker of the House Jim Wright. In the several-thousand pages of an omnibus appropriations bill, these expenditures can be shielded from constituents, and congressmen can hide their support for these perks by claiming that they voted for the whole package, not individual appropriations...
...clear that in Massachusetts the legislature, not the governor, has made improvements in public higher education," said Wood. He said part of the three-and-a-half-page letter included research he had done this year that showed the legislature had been far more supportive of higher education than the governor...
...demonstrated, granted, "political strength" among the liberal establishment and interest groups who influence the caucus's outcome. Walter Mondale did this, too, in 1984; but in 1984 Gary Hart was a better candidate for president. Since then, it may be true, he has "made mistakes," but he has also done more homework. His knowledge of such issues as defense and education reform, programmatic foreign policy, and national service has been demonstrated consistently at his every appearance. Mr. Brazaitis has not noticed this, instead ranting something about "Jesus Christ Super Stud," "hard wood" and "Chinese water torture." I realize...
When the costumes arrived, Baryshnikov confesses to a moment of panic. There were the spotted stockings, the Glove Seller's skirt with huge black gloves all over it, the primitive palette, the bales of flowers on hats, bodices, skirts. "What have I done?" he asked himself, yet he quickly decided that he had done just fine. "The shapes are so extravagant, but they are never cartoonish or boring," he says. "They say, 'Let's open up our temperaments and not be afraid of exaggeration...