Word: payment
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Remarkably, only a few weeks ago, congressional Republican leaders were still cautiously talking about putting America on a "glide path" to a balanced budget and making a "down payment" toward that goal. But the defeat of their balanced-budget amendment, along with some goading by Democrats, steeled them to pursue the battle by other means. "The change in the temperament of the people seems to make it easier than reducing the deficit in the past has ever been. It's a lot different," says an elated Pete Domenici, the Senate Budget Committee chairman. "I find it much easier to lead...
...thought to be dangerously political, no great admirer of the British Empire, and this during the Boer War, a time of obligatory super-patriotism. Give Shea some troubles; he's half a day's receipts from bank- ruptcy, supporting a raft of relatives, too kindly to press customers for payment. Too soft altogether; he is strangely affected by the death of an unknown young woman in a botched abortion. As was the practice at the time, a constable carries the dead woman's severed head in a bottle of preservative. He's looking for her identity, and for guilt...
...survey, which was sent to 2,300 randomly selected undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, faculty and staff, asks respondents about the following subjects: eating habits, preferred food type, service hours, specific campus dining locations, payment options and particular brand names...
...time is worth something. And with all this free publicity, especially since everybody reads The Crimson (including all 350 of you subscribers), the rate will be $40 (still less than $59) before you know it. Just cut out (or better yet photocopy) this letter, and send it with your payment to P.O. Box 381053; Cambridge, MA 02238. Act now while supplies last. Matt Bruce '96 Editor...
...Northern California's old redwoods, won a lawsuit against the Pacific Lumber Co., with help from activists of the Environmental Protection Information Center. A federal judge granted a permanent injunction against logging Owl Creek. He rejected a claim that this was a "taking" for which the Constitution requires payment. That didn't stop what became a classic angry standoff in 1986, when Charles Hurwitz, a Houston financier, bought Pacific Lumber largely with junk bonds and cranked up the chopping down of redwoods to pay off his debt. Three days after the Owl Creek decision, Pacific Lumber announced plans...