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...tough laws, and the horror has increased and increased and increased," said former government spokesman Kevin McNamara. Given that the splinter group responsible for Omagh has already stopped operating, and that the IRA is calling for it to disband, Britain and Ireland may have arrived too late to padlock the stable door...
...time Ronald Reagan became President, Currie was so well entrenched that she and a handful of career bureaucrats all but controlled an agency that he had vowed to padlock. When he appointed a conservative Dallas lawyer named Thomas Pauken to head ACTION and "de-radicalize" the place, Pauken found he had to topple Currie first. "As long as she was sitting outside my office, I wasn't running the agency," he declares. So he demoted her. "Betty was surprised," he recalls. "She thought she had the place wired...
...Endowment for the Arts has little to do with the collapse of the American family, for instance, does not prevent Buchanan from announcing that if he is elected, "the first week I'm going to walk out of that White House down to the NEA. I'm going to padlock the place and fumigate...
...gang box, a large metal box where tools arestored, was secured with a padlock, according toSchwab
That stature gap helps explain why both parties are playing a new Washington game called "Whose Wrecking Ball Is Bigger?" After Republican Newt Gingrich announced his plan to sell one of five House office buildings, jealous Clinton aides one-upped the Republican leader with a plan to padlock an entire federal agency. Hearing of this, Republican leaders late last Friday began work on a new budget plan to close four agencies: HUD, Energy, Education and Commerce. The bidding war exasperated one official. "Now we're in a situation," he said, "where if we don't abolish three agencies, we look...