Word: neill
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...assist the ailing textile industry by drastically reducing imports. President Reagan has vetoed this bill, but the House will now vote on a proposal to override that veto. Supporting textile protection has become a cause celebre for critics of Reagan's free-trade policies. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill at a Washington rally for textile workers: "It is time, Mr. President . . . to take off your STAY THE COURSE button and start wearing a MADE IN THE U.S.A. button...
...Washington last week, House Speaker Tip O'Neill announced plans for a sweeping antidrug bill that would include provisions for more federal funds for expanded narcotics-interdiction efforts, addict treatment and public education. The new legislation could end up costing the government $5 billion a year. "If it breaks Gramm-Rudman," said O'Neill, "I'll ask the Rules Committee to waive the targets." Not to be left behind by the Democrats, a Reagan Administration Cabinet council met late last week to discuss a new White House initiative in the drug...
Some installments, more ambitiously, try to fashion an appreciation of the subject by combining biographical material with excerpts from his or her work. The results are uneven. An upcoming 2 1/2-hour show on Eugene O'Neill brings on Actors Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald, among others, to perform scenes from O'Neill dramas. Interspersed are labored re-creations of people and events from the playwright's life, complete with sound effects (snoring in a flophouse) and performers impersonating such O'Neill intimates as his wives Agnes and Carlotta and Critic George Jean Nathan...
...Great Pumpkin ever makes it to the Eighth Congressional District, he'll surely visit Tom Gallagher, whose vintage idealism recently cost him a place among the candidates to succeed Tip O'Neill...
...bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose May 24 Los Angeles wedding to Steven O'Neill was followed by a reception for "300 of our most intimate friends," explains, "When it boils down to a choice between money and friends, you go into debt...