Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State of the Union report, however, Reagan displayed the buoyant optimism that is at the heart of his personal appeal, touting the magic of the free market and the strength of the American people for a revitalization of the nation's economy. "If ever there was an Uncle Sam, it's him," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as he watched a replay of the speech. Although he has embodied Uncle Sam for five years now, Reagan still does so by chastising the Government he heads. "A lumbering giant," he called it, "slamming shut the gates of opportunity." His national...
Legislators of both parties began protesting these proposals even as they were being presented. At Senate hearings, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn told Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger that the Pentagon would be lucky to escape with a budget increase barely offsetting inflation. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar warned that "the Administration is inviting catastrophe" by proposing to increase foreign aid while slashing domestic spending...
...bigger-budget Goodman), this Hamlet employs a slide show, blues and rock sequences, video monitors and a staging of King Claudius' taking power as a press conference resonant of Watergate. The initial run starred doe-eyed, victim-like Aidan Quinn; he is now appearing off-Broadway in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, and Peter Aylward plays the role, in striking contrast, as a robustly funny bullyboy...
...certainly Sam was someone to learn from, an individual of great warmth, sensitivity, intelligence and good spirit," she added...
...encouraged because along with my sadness, I take away with me today a sense of the caring that exists in this community, the knowledge that Sam will be remembered here with deep affection and respect, and the belief that Sam's good nature, humour and sweetness will be, for us, exemplary," Armstrong said at the service...