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...paper shuttled constantly cross-continent on red-eye flights. When President Thomas Jefferson was criticized for his long vacations, he cited George Washington as his precedent for escaping the swampy capital in August and September. Said he: "Grumble who will, I will never pass those two months on tide-water...
...networks offered Democrats time for rebuttal. Looking prophetically grumpy, Rostenkowski and O'Neill asked their $50,000 question: Would not voters in the 95% of the nation's households that earn less than that amount be better off with the Democratic version? But the tide had clearly begun to turn. O'Neill phoned potential defectors until midnight on Tuesday, trying vainly to keep his colleagues in line. But the next morning the Speaker admitted the imminence of defeat, blaming it on "a telephone blitz like this nation has never seen." Afterward, however, the Speaker joined Rostenkowski...
...which included a meeting with the Queen at which she failed to curtsy. Fleet Street regarded this as a snub, although Buckingham Palace made it clear that Mrs. Reagan was not required to bend a knee. With that settled, the spiffy-looking President's wife quickly turned the tide, and by the time she appeared for the Hyde Park fireworks display on Tuesday night she received an ovation second only to the Queen...
...program will beef up retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week or less. The proposals were immediately dismissed by opposition Labor Party leaders as trying to "stem a flood tide with a sandbag...
...injunction request was the latest in a long series of legal challenges to the ordinance, passed in 1979 in an effort to stem the tide of condo conversions in the city. "It hasn't lost yet," city councilor David Sullivan, who drafted the ordinance, said yesterday...