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...when House Ways and Means chairman Richard Voke (D.-Chelsea) rose to speak, the stage was set for the critical vote. "This is the whole enchilada," he said. "If you take [the mandate] out, this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts House Passes Health Bill In Precedent-Setting Boost for Dukakis | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...Jose's Plate-one taco, one cheese enchilada, one beef-bean burrito, Mexican rice, frijoles, salad, $15.75.) But thriving exacts some cost in the Arctic Circle. "It's tough up here," says Fran, who lived in a garage on a dirt floor in 1977-she, two dachshunds and an electric heater. The inside temperature was 31°F below zero. She ran an outfit called Speedy Secretary then, but an IBM salesman blew through town, sold everybody a copier and put her out of business. "You can't run across the street to the hardware store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Where the Chili Is Chilly | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...Enchilada Millionaire

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enchilada Millionaires | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...Ehrlichman's novel The Company turned the history into the sort of instant legend in which fact and fabrication become indistinguishable. Watergate created its own rich vocabulary-of "stonewalling" and "twisting slowly slowly in the wind," of the "limited hangout" and expletives deleted." Haldeman, Ehrlichman and "the Big Enchilada,' as they called Attorney General John Mitchell, spoke a language of breezily menacing bonhomie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watergate's Clearest Lesson | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...kind ever mounted in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts is showing 33 pieces of "New Stained Glass," devoted to small, "personal" works by leading artists that range from Miroesque abstraction to ribald political satire. One offbeat work by Californian Richard Posner, 29, is called The Big Enchilada 1975; it depicts in allegorical terms the White House infighting over Watergate. A similar show at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles drew 2,000 people on weekends, while another recent exhibition in the Washington suburb of Reston was jammed during its six-week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Stained Glass, Back and Blooming | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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