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None of which seemed to make much impression on the plan's many opponents. Right now, says John Motley, vice president for governmental relations of the National Federation of Independent Business, Clinton "doesn't have 100 votes in the House or 30 in the Senate." His view is undoubtedly colored by the bitter opposition of his organization to a bill its small-business members fear will force them to pay more than they can afford to insure their workers. (The Administration's view is that the subsidies will prevent this from happening.) But it is a fact that the Clinton...
...sound presentation, called Sonic Pass, was designed by musician Christopher Janney and relied on audience participation to create a motley medley of sound...
...When asked to identify a "crew," 73 percent of the 1989 Head's spectators pointed towards Ol' Man Charles River. 12 percent pointed to their ROTC hairdos. 8 percent mumbled indistinct Motley Crue lyrics. The rest belched or passed...
...after, Aaron's Willy Loman-like father abandons him to chase some sales-man's dream in the Midwest. Orphaned, Aaron finds himself fending for his life, scraping for food, clothing and shelter. Intensely lonely and isolated, Aaron cannot turn to anyone for assistance. His only friends are a motley crew of down-and-outs, one worse off than the next. The film's second hour is a dark and macabre display of what would really happen if a child was indeed left home alone...
Yeltsin's gamble appeared to be paying off. Although citizens watched indifferently as political passions raged in and around the White House, parliament issued weapons to a motley band of supporters in the early hours of the conflict. On Thursday night eight armed men tried to break into a Moscow military facility. One policeman and an innocent bystander were killed. Yeltsin immediately ordered the Interior Ministry to confiscate weapons from the supposed defenders of the White House, and deployed hundreds of police, special forces and soldiers around the city. On Friday night columns of troops < established a protective perimeter around...