Word: present
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Last week a special session of the legislature replaced the service tax with a 1% increase in the sales tax. "It's a victory for the people of Florida and a heck of a Christmas present," said Martinez. But the Governor's flip-flops may be costly. Said Democrat Sam Bell, chairman of the powerful house appropriations committee: "His credibility with the legislature is zero...
...worked closely with Nitze in the Pentagon during Lyndon Johnson's presidency. When Warnke was nominated to be Carter's chief arms-control negotiator, Nitze savaged him in congressional testimony, impugning his integrity and patriotism. In 1979, as a founder and leading spokesman for the Committee on the Present Danger, Nitze did more than any other single individual to block ratification of the SALT II treaty, although today Nitze says he was merely trying to promote a "dialogue on the pros and cons of the treaty...
...present level of that leadership has been evident during the Deaver trial itself, as the third-highest ranking official in the U.S. government willingly and publicly endorsed the honesty of a former high official, charged with perjury, without even bothering to read the indictment or inquire whether the charges had substance," Seymour said in a reference to Shultz's testimony...
...know, I know: on your transcript it says that you took Rice Paddies. But do you really have a comprehensive overview of Chinese history, politics, art, and society from 2000 B.C. until the present? Or do you possess only a vague feeling of having been bored once in a huge lecture hall while slides of vases flashed on a distant screen...
...bill] could pass in the present from that it's in," said Lee Farris, South Africa coordinator of Mobilization for Survival, a multi-issue peace and justice organization. "But we would also like to see the bill return to its original language...