Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catholic high school in Des Moines last week, Bush became so incensed when a young woman read questions about his flip-flops on abortion from a Kemp flier that he took it from her, tore it in two and declared, "Finis." That one gesture guaranteed week-long coverage for the conservative New York Congressman...
...offset by pressures back home. In Managua, it did not escape notice that Ortega had forsaken once immutable Sandinista positions, most notably a pledge that they would never negotiate with the contras, whom they refer to as U.S. puppets. After Ortega announced the talks, La Prensa's headline read SANDINISTAS SURRENDER. That theme was echoed in the streets and at the markets. "We have been going backward ever since the Sandinistas came to power," said Rosario Arroliga Quintanilla as she shooed flies from the filets of pork displayed at * her small stand at Managua's Oriental market. "Now they...
...drinks a bit. Sometimes she drinks a lot. Her timorous gentility suggests to her landlady's brother (Bob Hoskins, with some of his spark plugs missing) the possibilities of untapped wealth -- enough of it, anyway, to finance a restaurant he wants to start. To Judith, his mercenary advances read as a last chance for romance...
...require annual % reauthorization. Other spending measures, such as agricultural support programs ($26 billion), are politically sacrosanct. And while some Democrats might be ready to chop away at the $298 billion in defense spending, substantial Pentagon cuts would be unlikely under any Republican Administration. Thus, spending that is truly discretionary (read politically negotiable) amounts to less than 15% of the $1 trillion federal budget. Even if the President could manage to veto $150 billion of spending from those areas, the savings would barely equal the interest on the national debt...
...trouble began soon after the Singer clan watched a videotape of John's funeral. Marion's church was badly damaged by an estimated 75 lbs. of dynamite. Nearby, investigators found a feathered spear stuck into the ground with a note that read, "Jan. 18, 1979. John Singer was killed on that date." As seven adults and nine children retreated into the Singer compound, Swapp supposedly told his brother-in-law that he was responsible for the bombing. By telephone, Vickie Singer reportedly declared, "We are going to battle. Yes, there will be death, killing...