Word: gov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of an obese beggar amusing, if not counterintuitive. Maybe she is fat because she eats fast food. Maybe she has a glandular problem. Maybe there is some evil capitalist socioeconomic principle at work and we are all in danger. I don't care. Tell it to your gov section...
...Gov. Jesse Ventura came to campus this week. According to most major newspapers and the cable channel CNBC, this was a very big deal. Ventura has been the target of much criticism lately for comments he made in an interview with Playboy. I picked up a copy of the magazine in order to judge his remarks for myself. It turns out that a female boxer is photographed naked in the same issue. I didn't even know there were female boxers...
...move generates a meager political benefit at a substantial public cost. White House officials have called it "a forced interest-free loan to the Government." Some Republicans in Congress have also objected, and Texas Gov. George W. Bush has opposed the delay, saying that it would be wrong for Congress to "balance their budget on the backs of the poor...
...timing of Minnesota Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura's visit to the Institute of Politics tomorrow could barely get better. Ventura, the former professional wrestler and one of two independent governors in the Union, is riding another wave of dubious publicity, this time after an interview in Playboy magazine in which, among other things, he said he would like to be reincarnated as a 38DD bra and proclaimed that "organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers...
Welfare reform efforts in the state of Wisconsin have met with remarkable success in moving welfare recipients to work, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson told an audience of nearly 125 at an Institute of Politics speech at the Arco Forum last night...