Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With members itching to hit the campaign trail, Congress slogged through a raft of last-minute legislative business, including a pile of spending bills, in order to adjourn as quickly as possible. The House approved and sent to the Senate for its expected approval a stringent ban on gifts from lobbyists. The Senate, unable to overcome bitter partisan differences, walked away from campaign-reform legislation but agreed to go back for a post-election lame- duck session in order to vote on global-trade legislation...
...scolded me," Koocher recalled recently, "and pulled out a pile of tickets and said "You go to the printer and he gives you all you want...
...couple reportedly removed the teeth and discarded the remainder of the jaw in a pile of manure about 10 miles up Route 133 in Gloucester...
...delegations drove over to the Presidential Palace. Carter and Nunn went in one car, and Powell rode with Cedras, straddling a pile of rifle grenades. And then came the final standoff. Jonassaint convened the Cabinet, and the agreement was on the table. Said Nunn: "It became very apparent that General Cedras was not going to ever say, 'I agree.' " Then Carter dramatically reached out and signed the agreement himself. Would the Haitians respond? Who among them would sign...
...what he is for. This is not surprising. Huffington, 47, did not go from political virginity in 1991 to a dead heat with Feinstein (the latest Field poll has them at a 42-42 tie) by providing his unscripted musings to print journalists. He did it with an outsized pile of Houston oil money ($5 million in his congressional race and more than $10 million so far this year) and a team of high-priced packagers -- Ken Kachigian and Lyn Nofziger (both political consultants to Ronald Reagan), the formerly disgraced Ed Rollins (who claimed, then later denied that he paid...