Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fallen into other bad habits. Knowing how hazardous and time consuming it is to push a controversial bill through the multilayered committee system, legislators increasingly tack their pet proposals onto major bills as riders. Right-wing advocates of so-called social issues have placed anti-school busing and pro-prayer riders onto a number of Justice Department funding bills. There is even an antiabortion rider attached to this year's appropriations bill for the Postal Service. These irrelevant amendments rarely survive both houses, but legislators waste valuable time in the process of shedding them...
...thereafter. Families earning between $50,000 and $75,000 would be eligible for partial credits. Declared Reagan: "We are offering help to the inner-city child who faces a world of drugs and crime, the child with special needs, and to families who still believe the Lord's Prayer will do them less harm in the schoolroom than good...
...parts of the last night's conversation. Picking up the New York Times, I mechanically found the sports page. The Mets had dropped a heart breaker to the Expos in the bottom of the ninth, 5-4. Something pulled desperately in my stomach, and I headed for an extended prayer session with the great porcelain...
Married to Joan Didion, author of The White Album and A Book of Common Prayer among others. Dunne has easy access to critical input. Although the two have dramatically different styles, Dunne and Didion work together, reading and advising each other's works-in-progress. The couple is currently collaborating on the screenplay for Vegas, having done four motion pictures together previously, including the film version of her novel Play It As It Lays. Their most recent joint effort, True Confessions, based on his book of the same name, starred Robert Duvall and Robert DeNiro as brothers, one a priest...
...morning and thanks God for what is," Lee says. "I don't worry. I work. I believe that the Government of the U.S. is fair and just. It is not the Amish habit to be in confrontation; we avoid it. So it was with great difficulty and much prayer that I took this...