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...lower, proper from gauche. Lately the House of Windsor has been demonstrating both sides of U usage. At Badminton competing for the Whitbread Trophy, Princess Anne's horse Stevie B was decidedly non-U as he made a shambles of a jump and a splash of his royal rider. Both walked away safely, everything dampened but their spirits. Meanwhile, Fleet Street speculated that Princess Margaret would marry an Old Eton ian and wealthy widower, Norman Lonsdale. He would be an atypically U choice for Margaret. Asked whether he would rule out any chance that he would wed the Princess...
Congress has 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...
...never seen death walking on the beach," one of them says, but even if they seem a bit slow at times, one can almost feel them growing up all the same. When Boogie and Eddie are driving along and meet up with a suave, sophisticated horseback rider, who's the kind of self-assured, intelligent woman they seem never to have seen before, Boogie exclaims. "Do you ever get the feeling there's something going on we don't know about...
When fare hikes were approved last summer, the Legislature included a provision for reducing the increase if rider-ship fell more than 10 percent over the previous year...
Last week's legislation represented the most stringent anti-bushing policies ever to win the approval of a House of Congress. Put forth by Helms and Sen. J. Bennett Johnson (D-La.), the rider to a justice Department allocation bill would forbid all courts from ordering busing of students living more than five miles or 15 minutes from a school. It would also apply retroactively to nullify much court-ordered busing around the nation...