Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helms, the gas levy was a tax-and-spend heresy. Aided by his North Carolina colleague John East and two obscure Republican freshmen, Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, Helms tried to talk the bill to death. The willful clique was able to delay a final roll call until Thursday, two days before Christmas, hoping that by then enough members would have gone home to prevent the Senate from mustering a quorum...
...time constraints of a lameduck session, however, gave inordinate power to a handful of conservative Republicans who took it upon themselves to rescue Reagan from what they considered a fateful lapse into taxing and spending. Two Republican freshmen, Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, previously known only for their obscurity, teamed with veteran marplot Jesse Helms of North Carolina to filibuster the measure to death's door. Majority Leader Baker tried to save the program by refusing to consider the continuing resolution until the gas-tax debate ended. But he made a strategic error...
...version, civilization was dressed in an off-white suit: Victor Laszlo, played by Paul Henreid. Henreid is still alive. So, for that matter, is Ronald Reagan, whom Jack Warner originally wanted for the part of Victor. (All wrong, too American, as wholesome as a quart of milk.) But Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet and Claude Rains and Conrad Veidt are all dead. The movie they made has achieved a peculiar state of permanence. It has become something more than a classic. It is practically embedded in the collective American unconscious...
...because their skills do not match the available jobs. There is no way to identify or count such workers with any precision. Nonetheless, many economists, including Feldstein, estimate the structural unemployment rate at about 6% or 7%. The figure seems puzzlingly high to laymen, who recall that when the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act was passed in 1978, an unemployment rate of 4% was considered the highest acceptable limit...
...tabloid format boosted circulation by 48,000. Stephen Mindich, publisher of the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 140,000), is an admirer: "The Herald may hype stories, but the facts are correct, and it has credibility." Advertisers, however, have not been buying. Edward Eskandarian, president of the Boston advertising agency Humphrey Browning MacDougall Inc., explained: "The Herald has an older, downscale audience, while the Globe delivers the $35,000-and-up households." John Morton, dean of newspaper industry analysts, summarized the struggle ahead: "Hearst has already Murdochized the Boston paper. I do not know what more Murdoch himself...