Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement was reached a month after the Oct. 19 Wall Street plunge which shook Washington and prompted 20 days of strenuous negotiations on Capitol Hill between Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and representatives of the administration. Until the last minute, Republicans were balking, unwilling to go along with $23 billion in new taxes over two years...
Although Ginsburg's indiscretion may have been common among members of the Big Chill generation, his confession fatally undermined his support among the Capitol Hill conservatives who had lobbied so hard for his nomination. The disclosure was the final straw in a week of controversy that included accusations of conflict of interest over his investment in a cable-television company, charges by a congressional committee that he ordered the destruction of documents while he worked at the Justice Department, allegations that he improperly sidetracked rules to limit the use of cancer-causing asbestos, and the revelation that his wife...
Kennedy was busy Thursday making courtesy calls on Capitol Hill. During a meeting with Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas and other GOP leaders, Kennedy said: "I like this. It's been wonderful...
...time of belt-tightening on Capitol Hill, congressmen want to see their education money used wisely before they decide to spend more. Universities would further their own interests by taking the loan situation more seriously. Why should any senator or representative allocate funds for student aid programs when he knows many of the borrowers never will pay back their loans...
...laughless comedies deliver their mixed messages more deftly, if not always more successfully. Hooperman, starring John Ritter as a San Francisco cop, is essentially a Hill Street Blues combination of crime-show action, broad comedy and "sensitive" character drama, slickly done but a bit overripe for its half-hour length. The Slap Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as an oafish sportswriter, opts for a looser structure and more melancholy tone. Slap is a blustering loser who is constantly getting socked in the face, pushed around by his boss and dumped on by women; when his estranged son shows...