Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the first of these expired on Thursday, the Reagan Administration sent some 400,000 "nonessential" federal workers around the country home at noon, supposedly shutting down the Government. Democrats in Congress accused the President of staging an unnecessary "Hollywood extravaganza" to put pressure on them. Reagan retorted that the blame lay with "the majority party in the House." Actually, it had been the Republican-controlled Senate rather than the Democratic-controlled House that had held up most appropriations bills...
About 15 minutes after she arrived at noon and had begun signing the pictures, a construction worker stopped by during his lunch hour and had Starion sign the cover...
...Kennedy recalls, "I never expected a whole lot in the early days, but I always hoped for a great deal." The voice carries the deliberate calm of a man who has struggled singly and triumphed over great odds. One thinks of Gary Cooper in the last scenes of High Noon, though Kennedy now sees himself living in a smash movie by Federico Fellini...
Cabot Librarian Alan E. Erickson said he decided on the first plan since it would allow Cabot to be open at a time when the other Harvard libraries were closed. On Sunday, Hilles and Lamont open at noon, while Widener and Pusey are closed all day, making Cabot the only library open from 10 a.m. to 12 noon...
There'll be cake for 3500, with President Bok cutting the first piece at noon. There'll be free soft drinks and tickets to the Holy Cross football game...