Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roughly $1 billion over its original $324 million budget. The 200 CUP employees and their families in Duchesne live in federal trailer camps and therefore pay no local property taxes. In lieu of tax payments, federal and local officials hit on a way to cure the Duchesne doldrums: Uncle Sam could build a bowling alley...
...Master of Ceremonies "Sidewalk Sam" Guillemin explained, "The spoken word has a living quality, particularly in the middle of the park, in the middle of the day." Instead of hearing poetry in the public parks, "we often hear harangues in those areas that should be the arenas for the noblest expression." "Poetry in the Park" is one attempt by the Sidewalk poets to set this trend aright...
...Sidewalk Sam also demonstrated an energy in reading that justified the amount of work he put into the event. And one reader succeeded in drawing a crowd by tumbling on the ground and foaming at the mouth...
...bullying Sam Donaldson ("So you're running your mouth so I can't speak?") insisted that Speakes has a duty, as in a court of law, to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is nonsense, and Donaldson knows it. At times a press secretary speaks with fingers crossed behind his back. Government has no duty to reveal its private deliberations but risks its truthworthiness when it blatantly misleads. It is in such a context that news stories about the forthcoming summit meeting should be judged. Reagan and his advisers used to say that summits without well...
...last week by threatening to retaliate against several countries, including Japan, if they do not curtail unfair trade barriers against various U.S. products, ranging from leather shoes to canned fruit. But Congress will not be easily assuaged. Declares Louisiana Democrat Buddy Roemer: "My district says that America is Uncle Sam, not Uncle Sucker. Lead, Mr. President...