Word: slade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate debate provided an occasion for yet another political struggle. The Pentagon had requested $800 million to buy 50 Lockheed C-5 Galaxy transport planes, a purchase heartily supported by Senators Sam Nunn and Mack Mattingly of Georgia, where they are made. But Senators Henry Jackson and Slade Gorton of Washington successfully led an effort to replace the C-5 funds with $520 million for 50 converted Boeing 747 planes, which are manufactured in their state...
...Richard Slade's Piquillo combines with La Perichole to make a purposely awkward but rather endearing pair. They are quite comical as they fail to impress the local townfolk with their singing and dancing. Slade's soft tenor blends nicely with Hellmold's soprano, although the occasionally overpowers him. Hellmold's more natural stage presence also steels situation from Slade; she moves slowly but gracefully, suiting her steps and value to each song. After becoming "tipsy," for instance, she hiccups and belches her way through a number, teetering back and forth on the stage. And Hellmold's voice, even...
...spending and reduction of the tax cuts, while some liberals criticized curbing the increase in Social Security benefits. But a surprising number of Republicans noted that the proposal was at least a starting point. "The appeal of the plan is that everybody is asked to sacrifice," said Republican Senator Slade Gorton of Washington. "No one escapes...
...that the Pope would have voted for AWACS. Said Durenberger: "Lyndon Johnson would have talked to me about an airbase in Duluth." Reagan was "soft but firm," said Democrat Wendell Ford of Kentucky, and exuded such sincerity that "I'd hate to play poker against him." Washington Republican Slade Gorton recalled that when Reagan called to offer condolences on the death of his mother, "I kept expecting the other shoe to drop, and the conversation to turn to AWACS. But it never did. The President spent the whole 20 minutes talking about mothers...
After two opponents of the sale, Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota and Slade Gorton of Washington, rose to argue, Reagan jutted his jaw and retorted: "You're going to cut me off at the knees. I won't be effective in conducting foreign policy." Gorton objected to the President's implication, at his press conference two weeks ago, that opponents of the sale were under the influence of Israel. Said he: "Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin doesn't control my vote." Shot back Reagan: "You may not think Israel is controlling your vote, but the world will." When...