Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time he had been cutting back his already grudging contact with family members, complaining he had developed a heart arrhythmia made worse by dealing with them. To identify any "urgent and important" letters they might send, he asked them to draw a red line under the postage stamp. When they used it to mark the letter in which they broke the news of his father's suicide, Ted wrote back complaining that the message didn't merit a red line. From that point he retreated even more firmly into the Montana woods, his books and himself...
...finished products, their reputations were as much at stake as those of their authors. But once publishing transformed itself into a business of battling behemoths, the clubby, gentlemanly code of ethics grew harder to enforce or even, in some minds, to justify. Do publishers still put a stamp of approval on their books, or are they now merely commercial conduits between writers and readers...
...victims are discovered. Everyone knows everyone, and double homicides are rare. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) is the visibly pregnant, and apparantly naive, chief of police in Brainard. Her husband is a wildlife painter who brings her lunch every day and frets over a contract to design the three cent stamp...
...repaid his debt to his adopted country by rebuilding broken vets like Dole. He has fought for farmers, for veterans, now for victims of prostate cancer. There were few Republicans in 1974 who would have teamed up with George McGovern on anything, much less a reinvention of the food-stamp program. But Dole knew a bit more about hunger than the average Senator...
...from under family farmers," said North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan. The bill addresses the contentious issue of dairy subsidies by ending a special tax on dairy producers and phasing down government support for butter, powdered milk and cheese over a four year period. The measure also guarantees food stamp programs for two years and preserves rural conservation programs. Supporters contend that although initial spending may increase, the legislation will eventually save some $2 billion over the next seven years...