Word: haying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solvent if Proposition 36 crimps other revenue sources. Standard & Poor's has shaken up investors by placing many of California's bonds on its "credit watch" list. Land developers, corporations, investment banks and labor unions are expected to spend $2 million to fight the proposal. Says John Hay, president of the California Chamber of Commerce: "It's a can of worms, horribly flawed, poorly written and researched." Jarvis calls his opponents "clowns" and "turkeys," branding their arguments "crapola." A poll last week showed the battle over Proposition 36 too close to call...
...would live and work for the rest of his life arm in a state of almost complete Isolation: connected to the city across the Hay only by the glow its lights made over the treetops on starle nights and the passage of suburban board-riders past his pertly of scrub, and In the disruptive decade or had broken into by the piles of newspaper recollected each fortnight from the local store, on the paddled thick house paint...
Within the next few months, hay fever sufferers may no longer have to choose between sneezing and snoozing, as a new form of potent antihistamines that are free of sedative side effects will soon be available...
...Senate ethics squad. So more than a few eyebrows were raised when it was learned that the millionaire parking-lot magnate had received a $250,000 finder's fee for merely making two telephone calls last June to help arrange the $30 million sale of Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel. "It's legal and ethical," Metzenbaum said. But the resulting publicity apparently reminded him of a maxim he has often preached: public officials must be concerned with appearances as well as legality. Last week he decided to return the fee, but a Washington real estate commission...
...story of Lincoln's presidency is not Age Old but hoary enough to call for some originality in its retelling. Vidal's contribution is to show his hero through the eyes of three associates: Private Secretary John Hay, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The two Cabinet members spend much time squabbling; Hay frequents a Washington brothel. All three observers are, unfortunately, tongue-tied when it comes to reporting on Honest Abe: "As usual, Hay wondered what the President was thinking; as usual, he did not have the slightest clue. ... How, Seward...