Word: hatchings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...purpose of racial integration. His move has so far been blocked by a Senate filibuster by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Moreover, Helms' effort has been complicated by another rider proposed by Democratic Senator Bennett Johnston of Louisiana that would overturn existing busing orders as well. Meanwhile, Hatch plans to introduce a bill to limit the power of fedral courts-up to, but not including, the Supreme Court-to order busing. That would bring up a whole new issue for the New Right: whether to concentrate on restricting the power of courts, which conservatives are convinced...
...seed and carry off precious topsoil. Then, every week with uncanny regularity, gentle showers brushed the new shoots. The temperature never went over 100° F, and every evening cool air formed in the swales and spread protectively over the young plants. The moisture choked the grasshopper hatch. Tornadoes and hail, which can claw the land raw in seconds, never materialized. Out of 25 summer thunderstorms, only one was manly enough to ruffle the oats and alfalfa of Adair County...
...trainees who will be enrolled in 1982 ranges from $5,000 to $13,000 a year. But partly because some Job Corps centers are run by private companies, and provide job training for the private sector, the program won support from conservative lawmakers. Says Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee: "This program works. Even $13,000 a year is a cheap price to pay to keep someone off the welfare rolls for the rest of his life...
Body Heat-wonderful title-bears a family resemblance in plot and tone to James M. Cain's Double Indemnity: a man more ordinary than he thinks he is meets a newly rich femme fatale; sparks fly, plots hatch, a husband dies, insurance claims are debated, friendships fray, the lovers quarrel and part explosively. And though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir...
Three conservative Republican Senators from the region, Reagan's friend Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn of Utah, have come out against the plan?so have leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...