Word: lawns
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Though Democrats continued their attacks with a blitz of legislative delaying tactics and more high-publicity counterhearings on the lawn of the Capitol, the Senate Finance Committee approved the basic G.O.P. blueprint for overhauling Medicare and Medicaid. House Democrats unveiled a much less sweeping $90 billion cut in Medicare (the G.O.P. proposes $270 billion) that would essentially keep the system intact but reduce payments to hospitals and doctors. Meanwhile, a Congressional Budget Office analysis showed that the privatization option in the G.O.P.'s plans may not save as much as anticipated...
This is the second year that the structure has been erected in the new Hillel courtyard as opposed to the lawn of the Spee Club, according to holiday coordinator Stephanie P. Wexler...
Most buyers, however, were happy. John Woodward and Karen Hall so admired the huge wooden sculpture that used to sit on the lawn of the museum that they bought it for $1,400. "You can't find such a monumental sculpture for that price," Woodward said. Now, however, the couple must assemble the 10-ft.-high, fan-shaped contraption and worry about what the neighbors will think when they erect it on their own lawn. "At least it is not obscene," said Woodward. Merely a white elephant with a new life...
...Senate Republicans unveiled a similar plan. But the G.O.P.'s decision to hold short and swift hearings on the $182 billion cost-savings plan--as well as on the even more controversial G.O.P. Medicare overhaul--prompted a full-scale rebellion by Democrats, who held alternative "hearings" on the lawn of the Capitol. The party leadership vowed to use every stalling tactic at its disposal to prevent the plans from being rammed through...
...putting green are not so quiet. One evening in mid-July, after Serb forces overran the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica and left the West's Bosnia policy a shambles, Clinton summoned several top aides, including two senior advisers from the National Security Council, to the South Lawn. As they stood by in suits, Clinton, in color-coordinated golf togs, proceeded to "blow off steam on Bosnia," according to one participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify our diplomacy when our diplomacy...