Word: sams
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...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston, Ann Blackman/Washington, William Dowell/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett, a former Secretary of Education who is co-director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Charles Perez. The Oprah Winfrey Show was singled out as an example of acceptable programming...
Though many Native American leaders agree that with casinos comes a risk of higher crime rates, prostitution and drug use, the benefits of the gambling revenues far outweigh the costs, participants said. As Sam Sapiel of Maine's Penobscots said in the opening speech, "[Gambling] is the only asset we have...
Democrats lost their most powerful voice on national defense matters, as well as a respected member of their once formidable but now rapidly shrinking Southern delegation. Saying he lacks the "zest and enthusiasm" for a fifth term, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia announced he would step down at the end of next year--the eighth Senate Democrat to call it quits and bow out of next year's elections...
...reform, Gingrich adroitly withheld his plan until the last minute, then provided only a few days for Democrats to counterattack. When House Republicans wouldn't budge on their insistence that there would be just one day of hearings on the Medicare proposal, Democratic frustrations hit the boiling point. Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida, who was Ways and Means Committee chairman until last year's Republican landslide, called it "a deliberate plot to put their program over before the American public has any chance to understand [it]." After storming out of a meeting with Republicans, Gibbons got into a scuffle with...