Word: monumental
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...arrived in Washington at 6:30a.m. Women poured off the bus. Some women had a cigarette and a Perrier for breakfast. The marchers began to gather in a field between the Washington monument and the Capitol building. Various college banners were laid out in roughly alphabetical order. Directors, clothed in white to symbolize women's sufferage, scurried around to organize the marchers...
...students--undergraduate and graduate students--arrived early in the morning and gathered for the three-mile march on the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol. From there, they marched passed the monument to the White House and on to the Capitol Lawn for a four-hour rally. The rally featured speeches by NOW President Eleanor Smeal, Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, and former New York State Representative Bella Abzug...
...lobbyists and the spiraling cost of election campaigns, two trends that go together like a hand and a pocket. The result has often been institutional paralysis. The very fact that Congress and the White House felt compelled to enact the Gramm-Rudman measure, requiring automatic spending cuts, is a monument to the inability of weak-willed legislators to say no to the lobbyists who buzz around them...
...mildly disgusted. Not by the pictures--they are actually quite tasteful for pornography these days--but rather by the popularity of such a pitiful monument to the adolescent fantasy life of the American Male...
...first acts would have to be to increase the national debt past $1 trillion. What an outrage, especially to a cost-conscious conservative! A trillion dollars--why, if you piled up that many $1,000 bills, Reagan told Congress, you would have a pile 67 miles high! "A monument to the policies of the past," said the new President, "which as of today are reversed." But since Reagan was also determined to increase military spending and to cut taxes (and since Congress was just as determined to stand guard over Social Security and other entitlement programs), there was only...