Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a saver since the fourth grade, I read with interest your article on the growing demand for a consumption tax [July 18]. I am sick and tired of a society that penalizes those like me who are thrifty. Worse, our nation's lawmakers reward my fellow citizens who indulge in big spending frivolities by not slapping them with a consumption tax. Our politicians should face up to the need for restructuring our tax system. It is no wonder that the middle class finds foreign bank accounts more and more appealing...
...during his two years on the court of appeals and during his first year on the supreme court. She also claims that Clark, in an unethical effort to discredit Bird, was the anonymous source for a Los Angeles Times report on Election Day in 1978 that Candidate Bird and fellow Justice Mathew Tobriner were deliberately delaying release of a controversial decision about the state's so-called use-a-gun-go-to-jail law until after the voting. (Bird won the election anyway.) Clark later testified before a commission on judicial performance that he believed the decision was ready...
...rostrum at a forum held by the twelfth annual Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) convention last week in Atlanta, he turned to acknowledge the organization's national president, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "President Jackson," he nodded. As laughter rippled through the crowd, Mondale turned to his fellow Democrats on the dais, Senators Alan Cranston and Ernest Rollings, paused and playfully inquired, "President Jackson...
California Democrat Tom Lantos, along with fellow Democrats Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, circulated a petition on Capitol Hill protesting the experiments as a "shocking waste of animal lives and taxpayer monies." A Washington radio station repeatedly broadcast Weinberger's office phone number so that listeners could call up to complain. After reading about the lab in his morning newspaper, Weinberger, who owns a male collie named Kilty, issued a terse one-line statement banning all Department of Defense dog shootings. Next a presumably weary Weinberger ordered a broad review of the Pentagon...
...like the Prime Minister he has yearned so long to become. Gone were the open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi was trying to cobble together a five-party center-left coalition. Joining...