Word: soups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic advisers also reflected some willingness to compromise on spending for the unemployed. "That's certainly something we should look into," Martin Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, amiably agreed when the Joint Economic Committee pressed him over the possibility of including more money for "soup kitchens." Responding to questions about adding a "reasonable" relief program to the package, Budget Director David Stockman told Senators: "I'm sure there is room in the budget...
...PULSE OF DETROIT weakened perceptibly two weeks ago. The latest setback for this sickly city immersed in a battle for survival was not another round of massive layoffs, or overcrowding in its burgeoning soup kitchens. Rather, the outlook grew bleaker because the 101-year old downtown mainstay J.L. Hudson's department store went out of business...
...small khaki tent that shakes and rocks from the 18-wheelers roaring past on the interstate below, Mike MacKay, 30, cooks instant soup on his hot plate, clears his table on top of a portable toilet and defiantly mutters a solemn vow. "I'm set to do this for two or three years," he says. "My wife and I are determined to get a house." Pitted in a bizarre promotional contest to win an $18,000 mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks...
Nakasone said that he had seen pictures of soup lines and old people sleeping in cars in the U.S., and emphasized his sympathy for the U.S.'s unemployment problem. But he asked Americans not to blame Japan for the lack of technical innovation in certain U.S. industries, and suggested that "more constructive efforts, like encouraging Japanese industries to locate in the U.S.," would be superior to imposing protectionist measures...
...finally brought to trial. At that time, the judge sentenced him to a term of 1,000 to 3,000 years in prison. It took Brisbon less than one year to kill again, this time stabbing a fellow inmate at Stateville Correctional Center with the sharpened handle of a soup ladle. At the trial for this murder, Will County State's Attorney Edward Petka described Brisbon as "a very, very terrible human being, a walking testimonial for the death penalty." The jury agreed...