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...intimidate Congress." The bankers had bombarded legislators with more than 1 million anti-withholding letters, most of them prewritten, preaddressed and with stamps supplied by the banks, apparently enlisting a majority of both houses in the cause. In response, Dole resorted to a filibuster to prevent Kasten's rider from passing...
...have to talk strategy with Jesse Helms, the ultraconservative North Carolina Republican. There were Senators who suspected Helms was aiding Kasten just as the fox helped the gingerbread man, i.e., Helms was really out to kill the jobs bill. President Reagan had vowed to veto the bill if the rider reached his desk as part...
...seeks laughter, as a train rider so jolted he pops his grapes into his seat mate's mouth, and tears, as a soldier whose trench mate dies in his arms. The man loves symbols. He slides his hands across his face, as if trying on masks. His expression changes quickly, precisely, but never subtly: it is a childlike grin, or a petulant frown, or a quivering rage. In another moment, the man is a sculptor, chiseling a massive imaginary block until it becomes a miniature, a fragment, then dust. Slow fade, then, to emphasize that this is a self...
...rider to the Copyright Act of 1976, which took effect in 1978, stipulates that professors may copy only 10 percent of a total work for class use, and that only if there is to be no more than one copy for each student in the class. The 1976 act was the first revision of the nation's copyright legislation since 1909. The current case represents the first time the Copyright Act has been directed specifically at University professors...
...many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though the one new NBC show to perform reasonably well against tough competition - Knight Rider, in the suicide slot opposite Dallas - is just another burning-rubber melodrama, a CHIPS of Hazzard...