Word: duck
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Admired and liked by Senators on both sides of the aisle, Baker has managed to be Reagan's man in the Senate without diminishing his own stature. Moreover, no one expects Baker's effectiveness as Senate mediator to be lessened if he becomes a lame duck. As his best friend in the Senate, Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiana) says, "There are people who need his patience, his ability to listen to all the guff, through all the tedium." But a Baker departure would affect his role as White House lieutenant. "The President's going to have...
...flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight to pass around a joint. The flagrant use of cocaine is a festering scandal in middle-and upper-class life. And then there are (hello, Everybody!) the jaywalkers...
...country home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and renews his acquaintance with Sally, his third wife, who is director of the Jeffrey II ballet troupe, and their two sons, 14 and twelve. He putters in the garden, raises such wild game as pheasant and quail in his duck pond and plays tennis. He also listens to music, the kind that soothes and softens a Sunday. Chamber music, of course...
Whatever the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 turns out to be in history's eyes, it was not easy to achieve. Though it passed with bipartisan support in the waning hours of the lame-duck session and is scheduled for the President's signature this week, it required four years of tinkering in nine separate House and Senate committees to cobble together the 100-page bill. It authorizes the Department of Energy to find a permanent home for the 8,800 tons of toxic nuclear waste that have piled up since the dawn of nuclear power...
...more important pieces of legislation that got lost in the rush of last month's lame-duck session of Congress was President Reagan's much heralded Caribbean Basin Initiative. Originally proposed in February 1982, the CBI offered $350 million in short-term cash aid and a variety of long-term trade and tariff benefits for the struggling ministates of Central America and the Caribbean. Approved by the House and the Senate Finance Committee, the plan must be presented anew to the 98th Congress, although the short-term aid money has already been disbursed...