Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People who ordinarily would have been lying in bed sleeping or comuting to work abandoned their daily routines to hold sparklers and signs reading, "Burn, Bundy Burn," "BBQ," and "Bundy, Catch the Current...
Cabinet secretaries and department heads will continue to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee throughout the week to defend their budget recommendations. The committee plans to hold public hearings on the budget at the end of the week...
...night, and it's got to be a talk show, so what can we do inside that framework that would make us laugh? It's just goofy, silly additional behavior. We never said, "What we want to do here is construct a mirror of the American talk show and hold that up to the viewer." We never really set out to show people a parody of a talk show. I mean, it is a talk show...
...most visible event for Fellowship participants is the National Prayer Breakfast. The annual gathering was launched by the late Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, who talked President Eisenhower into being host of the first one in 1953. President Bush, a regular Episcopal churchgoer, will hold his initial prayer breakfast this week. It will be attended by some 4,000 people, including ranking officials from all branches of Government, plus diplomats and clergy, who will join in a 90-minute round of prayer and testimonials at a Washington hotel. (At one such session in the Reagan era, former Soviet Ambassador Anatoli...
Stopping this clandestine trade is almost impossible for agents of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The weapons are transported by car or truck, aboard trains or stashed in the cargo hold of interstate buses and planes. Federal agents even uncovered one shipment sent by United Parcel Service and labeled "sewing-machine parts." Most of the time they move unimpeded by the kinds of inspections imposed on shipments from outside the U.S. Until more uniformity can be established among state gun laws, gun smuggling on the interstates will remain a flourishing trade...