Word: litterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, the meteorological chaos brings a heat wave to the Inaugural festivities. Unprepared GOP faithfuls are caught off guard by the high temperatures. Fur-clad women, collapsed from heat prostration, litter the broad boulevards of the capital. The genial second-term President quips in his vanguard speech, "no, I'm definitely not too could to be President...
...intricacies of modern diplomacy in a naive and simplistic manner. The problems of the world aren't going to be solved by the cooperation of U.S. U.S.S.R. space teams, nor by the discovery of new life in the Universe. Men will be men, no matter how many monoliths litter the asteroid belt...
Finally, last week a compromise was reached after endless negotiations that left the office of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Senate floor manager for the funding bill, strewn with litter. The end was in sight. The Democratic House completed its chores, and most of its members scurried out of Washington. The Republican Senate convened for the final formalities, including an affectionate farewell tribute to retiring Majority Leader Howard Baker. All that remained was to raise the national debt ceiling by $251 billion, to $1.824 trillion, since the old limit would otherwise be surpassed. But then Democratic Senators balked. Long berated...
...said there was a steady deluge of objects that fell down between the seats-flags, camera caps, paper cups, hats, seat cushions-tumbling down to the litter at ground level. I asked what some of the more interesting objects had been. I had my notebook...
...climbed back up to my seat. I told Naber I thought I was on to something. I described the litter. He said it was the most inconsequential thing he had heard of yet, but he would keep his eyes open. "I'm good at this sort of thing," he said. He had once discovered $4.79 in the drain of his high school swimming pool...