Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to acquaintances, Michel Breistroff '94-'95 was returning home to France after visiting friends in the U.S. when the Boeing 747 jumbo jet exploded...
Untouched, however, were the jumbo entitlements, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, that account for most of the growth in annual deficits. And in the final weeks of negotiation, Republicans had to restore about $5 billion in spending that the President wanted. Head Start, the Commerce Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and AmeriCorps, Clinton's volunteer-service project--all things the G.O.P. had sworn to get rid of or cut--were funded at levels not far from White House targets...
...heavy-duty negotiators. Enter James "Bo" Gritz, former Green Beret colonel and a leading figure in the far right "patriot" movement. After three days of meeting with the remaining fugitives in their cabin, Gritz and Jack McLamb brought back a 26-page document of what Gritz called "legal mumbo-jumbo." The Freemen authored document challenges the constitutionality of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and other branches of government. Gritz announced the Freemen are prepared to surrender, "if the United States government can prove that the documents ... are not the law." The Freemen also sent out a videotape with Gritz...
...girlfriend Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. "I'll see you guys in Milan," he tells the band, which stays in a separate hotel and flies commercial while Allen travels by private jet. But they're not complaining. The pay is good, and as Sayer points out over a plate of jumbo shrimp and French cheese, "the food's gotten a lot better since we started touring with Woody...
Minister Farrakhan's performance, playing to a packed house, rose through Washington's sweet October air and bounced off satellites. Farrakhan banged on the American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...