Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designated as military aid. Last week, however, Fitzwater conceded that the "$270 million figure has been overtaken by events." After several days of discussions, the White House decided to ask this week for less than $50 million, with only 10% earmarked for lethal purposes. But Capitol Hill buzzed with proposals to postpone the aid vote. Among those championing a delay was Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole. A strong supporter of Reagan's contra policy who once called Ortega a "ringmaster of repression," Dole cautioned last week that there were not enough votes to assure...
...Eastern High in Washington, Ralph Neal, who was named one of the top ten U.S. principals by the National School Safety Center, rewards good grades and attendance records by publishing the information in the Washington Post and taking an oustanding youngster to lunch each month at a good Capitol Hill restaurant -- where he also fetes his teacher of the month...
...originate with him. Ever since Ulysses S. Grant in 1876, Presidents have asked Congress for the power to reject individual appropriations without wiping out an agency's entire budget. Reagan has argued that a line-item veto would allow him to rein in the big spenders on Capitol Hill and bring down the deficit. Says a White House aide: "What we're talking about is changing a pattern of behavior that has existed for a long time...
...Capitol Hill, Reagan's case for the line-item veto suddenly seems a little more convincing. "I used to think the line-item veto was the stupidest idea in the world," says Stephen Bell, former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. "I was wrong." Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon thinks Congress will eventually be forced to pass the reform. "We're going to be ridiculed into doing it," he says. "I've come to the conclusion that we are not going to be capable of governing ourselves." In discussing the veto, Senator Ted Kennedy recently said something...
...settings range from an Indian hill station to funky downtown Detroit. The protagonists include a 12th century monk and a modern gay insurance investigator. No wonder crime fiction often seems to be not one genre but many. Its best, most venturesome writers, like the players in Hamlet, perform in veins lyrical, tragical, comical and historical -- and above all enjoyable...