Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy School network is rapidly expanding on Capitol Hill, says Dole's assistant, Burke. "Like any other network you tend to call people you know when you need advice or recommendations," she says, adding that new graduates often call her for "jobhunting advice...
Business Administration Professor George C. Lodge '50 rejected the theory that the best government is one which governs least, especially when combined with the rising power of special interest groups on Capital Hill...
When Charles turned eight, the Queen decided totest out her theories of royal education and senthim to Hill House, a short drive from BuckinghamPalace. After two years at that school, QueenElizabeth decided to send her son to Cheam, a prepschool in Headley, a small village near Hampshire.Although Charles' schoolmates treated him like oneof them, even addressing him by his first name, itwas obvious that Charles was not one of them...
Lyndon Johnson could smell trouble coming a year away. Then he would tell one of his favorite yarns from the Texas hill country about the Army recruiter who went out to scare up some new boys during World War II. He found one big fellow, pronounced him physically fit and submitted him to the mental test...
Within a few feet of Ronald Reagan's White House office a high official said worriedly, "It could take a crisis before this country comes to grips with the economic problem it faces." And on Capitol Hill, one of the handful of men who run the place mused, "Democracies don't do what they ought to do until events leave them no choice." The White House blames Congress for not cutting spending, and Congress blames the White House for not raising revenues. With that kind of talk, you can hear the locomotives gaining speed...