Word: pacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right? Is the University, by virtue of its mandate to teach and pursue research, entitled to reject most over-sight by the surrounding community? Can Harvard figuratively slap a President in the face with impunity? Or has Harvard evolved into just another political entity in society, like a PAC or a lobbying group, differentiated from other political groups only by power and prestige...
...Forget Pac-Man. The latest pastime is more explosive than any video game. For only $10, housewives, accountants or truck drivers at the Bullet Stop in suburban Atlanta rent automatic weapons like UZI submachine guns and blast away with live ammo ($10.75 to $12.75 per box of 50 shells) on twelve carefully supervised shooting lanes. The targets: old bowling pins and combat-training silhouettes. "We get a lot of Rambo types," says Owner Paul LaVista, 38. "But mostly attorneys, airline pilots and doctors. They're big-time spenders." LaVista, who is working on franchising his smashing idea, claims that...
...there can vary (and usually does) from Crimson and Lampoon editors, to Quincy and Lowell House partiers, to video game players, to smokers who just love to get yelled at for putting their feet on the furniture (a grave no-no at Tommy's). No smoking while playing Ms. Pac-Man, but good cheesesteaks and thick frappes (that's a milkshake in Bostonese). Tommy's is open 6 a.m.-2 a.m. on weekdays and 6 a.m.-3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturday nights...
...House alone) and collecting IOUs. "You're looking at an awful lot of deals, and an awful lot of fund raisers, before you see any kind of tax bill," warns Panetta. By the time Congress finishes weighing the reasoned arguments of all the different lobbyists, as well as their PAC contributions, there may be little left of Reagan's original bill...
...sneaky as a PAC, as enduring as Claude Pepper, as annoying as an overzealous lobbyist, the unelected American cockroach is surely the most resilient resident of Capitol Hill. From the Rotunda to the farthest hearing room, congressional buildings are overrun with the scurrying pests, which seem harder to stamp out than waste, fraud and abuse. Efforts to exterminate them have failed miserably, so Congressman Silvio Conte has declared a war against what he says is a "1 trillion-strong" invasion of the hallowed halls. The irrepressible Massachusetts Republican has launched a "Conte Crush-a- Cockroach Campaign," the slogan of which...