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...places--lonely spots where it seemed the sun would never rise. He played to the heart of Friday night, but he was always a perfect gentleman. When he came back for an encore, he told the audience in a charming, tired voice, "Thank you very much. You're most generous with your applause, but the pleasure has been entirely ours, I assure...
Meanwhile, Bok & Co. were opening up a 38-23 halftime edge. Bok recovered from a Meyers "in-the-face" driving lay-up with a nifty two-hand set shot from downtown en route to an eight-point first half. Bok saw the roundball on severla occasions, thanks to the generous passing of subordinate Wyatt, who, like any aspiring Veep, shoveled it to his boss continually...
...raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code of ethics. This would seek to change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright graft and fraud...
...Generous retirement pay, now being recomputed under the raised salary. Previously as high as $35,680 after 32 years' service, it will be increased...
...Means Committee. "The Administration's package didn't really satisfy anyone," said Ullman, who began drafting his own plan. Ullman's attitude was widely shared by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans on the committee who felt that even Carter's meager proposal was too generous toward big businessmen and would not sufficiently cope with the unemployment problem. Instead they preferred a measure aimed directly at creating more jobs...