Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrate her change of registration. Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf plans to showcase Kirkpatrick in a $100,000 campaign to convert Democrats in four states with potentially close Senate races next year (Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Louisiana). Last Friday 1,000 Republicans paid $50 a plate to hear her address a dinner in Des Moines; counting others who put up $1,000 each to meet her at a private reception, her appearances raised more than $100,000. Her speech sounded like a campaign rouser; Democrats, she said, "can't get elected unless things get worse -- and things...
Lonesome Dove, Texas, is a one-tart town and so quiet you can hear the lady's bedsprings a block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...
Bewildered Americans have waited by their telephones for a year and a half to hear of some concrete benefit from the breakup of the Bell System in January 1984. Up to now, many people thought the only results were nearly indecipherable phone bills, baffling repair procedures and higher charges for local service and directory assistance. Last week came still more confusion...
Langerman and Elvy have also done several jobs for the federal government and are currently waiting to hear the results of a bid they submitted to the IRS: "We figured it was about time that we got back some of the money we've given them," Langerman jokes...
...will hear Sean Doyle's name again. He knows where he's headed. He'll work for five to eight years, then, he says, "I've always had political aspirations." And if his friends are to be believed, there can be little doubt that before too long, he'll also have political accomplishments...