Word: sams
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Peck's personalizing of the debate was a touching surprise in what many critics saw as an orchestrated compromise on the gay-ban issue conducted by committee chairman Sam Nunn. "It's Nunn's dog-and-pony show," says Lieut. (j.g.) Tracy Thorne, a "Top Gun" navy bombardier who is being removed from active duty because of his homosexuality. "He's got the witness list totally skewed against those who want to lift the ban." When the Senate panel | toured the Norfolk (Virginia) Naval Base last week to hear from the rank and file, 15 of the 17 witnesses supported...
Many students caught in the midst of finals could care less what happened to Sam Malone (Ted Danson) or the rest of the "Cheers" regulars. Other so-called "Cheers junkies" though, felt its loss more deeply...
Robert M. Broggi '94 wanted Diane and Sam to get married. Horowitz had his own plan: "Woody's elected President; Sam, Diane, and Rebecca all go off to a desert island together, and Norm gets bronzed in his bar stool...
STRAPPED WITH A DEBT OF $4 TRILLION, UNCLE SAM naturally wants to pay the lowest interest rates possible. In a move expected to save up to $16 billion over the next five years, the Treasury said it would shift a big chunk of its borrowing from long term to short term. The use of bonds and notes that mature in five years or more, which currently carry interest rates of roughly 5% to 7%, will be reduced 45%. More money will be raised with securities that mature in three years or less, on which the government has to pay only...
...veteran hawks and doves swapping roles. The Republican leader in the Senate, Bob Dole, is calling for military action, but former Vietnam naval aviator -- and POW -- Republican John McCain is a leader of the opposition to bombing. Many members of Congress are calling for clear explanations from Clinton. Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and one of Capitol Hill's leading military experts, says, "There ought to be a clear exit point. We ought to know how we're going...