Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeah, I took the eggs," said Nunn last week. "It was a scheme to make some extra cash" -- a plan too clever by half. Even then, Nunn prepared his moves carefully, cautiously. A cooling-off period was decreed. The eggs were stashed in the attic of Sam's home. "But I never realized they'd rot," said Nunn. "It was theft without profit...
...says Nunn. "Today everything is considered an entitlement." Nunn's national-service proposal has been criticized for discriminating against the poor, a charge Nunn finds "ridiculous . . . The current system isn't working. The dropout rates are horrendous, and $10,000 is more than almost every student could hope to make. It's a benefit, not a penalty...
...promise. Finally, and over Bush's objections, Ford sent Congress a letter ruling out Bush as a potential vice- presidential candidate. "Yeah, we beat him back then," says Nunn, "but you notice where he's sitting today." As for '92 and an ultimate Bush-Nunn face-off, that could make the present skirmish look like child's play...
...week that they did not even know in advance of Tower's pledge to swear off drinking, or that their nominee would admit to breaking his wedding vows. Portraying Tower as unfairly treated by the Democratic majority, Dole said he may ask the Senate to permit the nominee to make a rare appearance before the entire body so that he will have "his day in court" and can "answer his critics face-to-face...
...renewed nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras, a red flag to Democrats who repeatedly fought over the contras with the Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, the public is left with an image of the Senate as a cockpit of partisan squabbling, the White House as a center of questionable decision making, and the city of Washington as Sodom- and-Gomorrah-by-the-Potomac. It's enough to make the whole town start singing a different song. Anyone for Who's Sorry...