Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barney's marital status is not the only thing changing in sleepy Mayberry, N.C. Little Opie Taylor (Ron Howard) is all grown up now, editing the town newspaper and about to become a father. Gomer, who left Mayberry in 1964 to join the Marines (and star in his own series, Gomer Pyle--USMC) is back at the old gas station, working alongside his cousin Goober (George Lindsey). And Andy, who married Helen Crump and moved to Ohio 18 years ago, has returned to Mayberry and decided to run for sheriff again. His opponent turns out to be none other than...
...with lobbyists. They are sources of money, political savvy, even friendship. In the jaded culture of Washington, influence peddlers are more envied than disdained. Indeed, to lawmakers on the Hill and policymakers throughout the Executive Branch, the feeling increasingly seems to be: well, if you can't beat 'em, join...
...reform bill would provoke an exodus of staffers into the lobbying ranks. Their fears were not unfounded: the committee's chief counsel, John Salmon, quit to work as a lobbyist for the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine; James Healey, former aide to Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, quit to join Black, Manafort...
...once said about his change in political loyalties: "I am born in the upper class but I belong to the labor movement. I have come to join the labor movement by working for the working class on its own conditions and by adhering to a movement which desires liberty, equality and fraternity between people...
Last week Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely met with President Derek C. Bok to ask the university to join in a scheme to construct just that: low-and middle-income housing and a community center to be funded by the city, the Archdiocese of Boston, and--you guessed it--Harvard...