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...million), and "getting it by twisting the arms of Republican legislators." Romney, he raged, had "kicked farmers in the teeth," "thrown small business into a tailspin," and had taken credit for measures passed by the legislature. "I am tired of the front office taking credit for going from payless paydays to a $60 million surplus. The payless payday, as everybody knows, was a hoax. And the surplus is due to legislation passed in 1962 by a previous Republican legislature and by an expanding Michigan economy." Said Romney when he heard of the diatribe: "This is not the sort of thing...
...citizens couldn't have cared less about the coup. But the combination of French steel and Mba's flinty threats of "total punishment" once he was back in office finally struck a spark. In Libreville's La-lala quarter, a dissonant mob formed. Fired up on payday whisky, it marched on the capital's central market, screaming: "Frenchmen go home!" The rioters were finally dispersed in a crunching whirl of para rifle butts...
...suggested that the tour's top golfers should knock off for two months each year to rest: "When you play twelve months, the game is no longer a pleasure; it's a nerve-racking grind." He then ambled off to set his sights on the next big payday: the $50,000 top prize in the World Series of Golf this September, a tournament that pits the winners of the Masters, U.S. and British Opens and the P.G.A. against one another. Because Nicklaus has won two of them, the fourth spot will be decided by a play-off between...
...Sino-Soviet meeting at all. The Kremlin acted as though the showdown never took place. Dom Priemov, the reception house where the sessions were supposed to be held, was carefully avoided by Soviet reporters and photographers. Asked why, a Moscow news executive said sarcastically: "It's payday. They've all gone for their money." After meeting twice to discuss formalities, the Russians and Red Chinese met only three times during the next seven days. Just before one session began, a Western reporter asked a Soviet plainclothesman what time the Peking delegation was expected. The cop shrugged and said...
...Congo's latest mutiny began on payday. Opening up their pay envelopes last week, Leopoldville's 3,000-man police force discovered that their demand for a 25% wage hike had not been met. At dawn the next morning, the angry cops overpowered their own officers, then raided Leopoldville's city hall, where they took some two dozen hostages, including two deputy mayors and the mayor's pregnant wife. Barricading themselves in their police barracks, the well-armed cops waited for the government to ante up more money...