Word: hills
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...Democrats last year recaptured control of Congress because they fielded better candidates, but also because they were more finely tuned to people's thoughts about what the Government ought to be doing. The Democrats were well in control on Capitol Hill by Christmas. With the Administration weakened, the party leaders swung into place the long-deferred Democratic agenda, items thwarted during the Reagan years: education, job training, increased research for AIDS and health care. Says Democratic Hopeful Gephardt: "I don't think people care about Government or no Government. They're willing to use Government if it is part...
...stiff hike up the hill from the Red Dog, nobody in the state capitol building sees anything to chuckle about. When Steve Cowper, the new Governor of the largest state in the union, looks out his third-floor window, his horizon does not stretch far enough to see another boom, or even a boomlet. What he sees is a budget deficit of $882 million and diminished prospects for the state's heretofore pampered citizens. A man who favors cowboy boots and long silences, Cowper says sardonically, "It's a four-year term unless they burn me out of the mansion...
Five minutes into Tuesday night's men's lacrosse game between Harvard and Boston College at Chestnut Hill, the Crimson hit a low point...
...adjacent hill to Dumbarton Oaks sits a spartan, classical one-story structure known as The Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. The institution was founded in 1961 with a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation to provide a locus for studies in the Classical Greek tradition, reversing what was then seen as a general movement away from the study of the Classics...
This interest flowed from two parallel developments between January and April 1985. First, U.S. government aid to the Contras had run out and "elements of the NSC staff focused their efforts on strategies for repackaging the Contra program to increase support on Capitol Hill," according to the Tower Commission...