Word: kill
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...years or face automatic cuts. "What % this bill does is put the fat in the fire," declared Gramm. "It forces decisions." Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, however, likened Congressmen voting for the bill to "the person who writes on the bathroom mirror in lipstick, 'Stop me before I kill again...
...reform. The White House and Democratic chiefs wanted to hold a simple up-or-down vote on the Rostenkowski bill, as well as on a Republican alternative that was given no chance of passage. At a G.O.P. strategy session, however, Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi urged, "Let's kill this snake before it gets out of the hole." On the House floor, Republicans moved to do just that by insisting that they be given the chance to vote on amendments. They were all for tax reform, they disingenuously avowed; they simply wanted the chance to make a few improvements...
Prosecutors argued that the exchange had been taped not to obtain evidence in the theft case but to investigate Moulton's alleged threat to kill a government witness. The evidence was therefore legally gathered, they contended, and should be admissible even in his auto-theft trial. But Brennan's majority opinion declared that Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other...
...masochist says, 'Kill me!' The sadist says...
...defendants would be acquitted by the three Marcos-appointed judges, so the verdict provoked few demonstrations and no violence. But opposition leaders responded to the verdict with anger. "The (court) just committed triple murder," said Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, 47, the slain leader's younger brother. "Not only did it kill Ninoy and Galman all over again. It also killed the country's judiciary." Said Cory Aquino, refusing to consider the matter of her husband's death closed: "My No. 1 suspect is Mr. Marcos...