Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sam Nunn. The new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee will also get a lot of visibility. As an enormously popular Georgia moderate, he benefits from the impressive performance of his party in recapturing loyalty in the South...
...White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson, with his barracks voice, is a flamboyant exception to this charge, but any steady watcher of the evening news has to be aware of how cozily television reporters imply that they have inside information when they are merely repeating the Administration line. Many reporters believe no previous Administration has been so efficient and disciplined at controlling the flow of information, concealing internal dissent, going after leakers and shutting down access: all to get its own version across. As Marvin Kalb of NBC's Meet the Press told the forum, "This particular Administration begins...
Perhaps the toughest task before the new Senate majority will be speaking in a unified voice. There may be a skirmish for the soul of the party between the Kennedy-Cranston Old Guard and a neoliberal faction led by such Senators as Joe Biden of Delaware and Georgia's Sam Nunn. The Democrats have historically been a party of competing factions. Sometimes, as when Southern segregationists of old were filibustering the civil rights legislation of their Northern colleagues, there has been open warfare. The struggle this time around will be more subdued...
...Federal Government, said the academy committee, would have to organize and direct the educational campaign, and put up much of the $1 billion a year that will be required by 1990. And Uncle Sam would have to supply nearly all the additional $1 billion annually required for a vastly expanded research effort -- which must not be taken from other research efforts. This is a tall order. In fiscal 1986 the Reagan Administration committed just $234 million to AIDS research and education combined...
With his sheath of white hair, his bulbous nose and whalelike body, Tip O'Neill is a caricaturist's dream. Over the past decade, cartoonists have made the Speaker of the House almost as familiar an American icon as Uncle Sam. Though Republicans depicted Democrat O'Neill, 73, as the incarnation of bloated liberalism, the Speaker actually stands for something both larger and smaller: the beliefs that Government should help remedy the inequities of society and that a politician should help those in his own backyard. "All politics is local," O'Neill liked to say; he built his career around...