Word: honors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many old-style newspaper reporters wore Pulitzer's code as a badge of honor, or used it to justify their low salaries. Many news writers considered it their duty to "comfort the afflicted" and "afflict the comfortable...
CRIME: The Honor-Roll Murder...
...said. "Bar is going to do a book. But I have made no firm plans." Then his eyes drifted off over the long horizon, back toward Washington. "I've done what I could," he said. "Time to get out of town. I intend to do everything I can to honor the office of the presidency . . . I feel good that I have handed over the office so that Iraq is no problem for President Clinton now . . . He was very gracious to us all day. I really wish him well...
...Bill Clinton had paid tribute in his Inaugural Address to Bush's "half- century of service to America." Bush was touched. "I wrote ((down)) my thoughts on the privilege of serving this nation," he said. "What an honor it has been." At least some of those thoughts he sealed inside an envelope and laid on top of the desk in the Oval Office...
...Such honor-bound people typically pay more for help than their tax-dodging neighbors, and their workers pocket less money. For example, a family that pays a nanny $250 a week must add $15.50 for Social Security taxes. The worker would likewise pay $15.50, plus $3.62 in Medicare taxes, not to mention federal and state income taxes. "It's very expensive to be on the books," says a New York City mother who does not pay the Social Security taxes. "I already pay $1,200 a month in child care. How can I pay more...