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...that remained for him to do was place his i.d. in a thick paper cover to keep the embossing from melting and then run the card through the laminator. He then would have gently traced over the embossing on the front with a sharp edge, such as the tip of a nail file to recreate the indentations...
Yohe's toss sailed over Bunning's hands, butGlatz leaped and tipped the ball. Somehow, thesenior fullback kept his concentration on theball, and gathered in his own tip as he fell tothe ground...
...House, Tip O'Neill takes the last approach, figuratively pulling up a chair at Barry's Corner, his old hangout in Cambridge, Mass., and regaling the reader with a string of let-me-tell-you-about-the-time anecdotes. Already some of the book's barbed comments have provoked a flurry of attention and virtually guaranteed that it will be a commercial success. But the book is more than just a settling of old scores. It adds up to a stout defense of two now tarnished notions that O'Neill came to epitomize: the New Deal liberal ideal that government...
...memoirs, former Speaker Tip O' Neill speaks his mind about politics and Presidents. -- Outlaws is George V. Higgins at his best...
What may finally tip the balance against Noriega within the Administration is political factors. Recent protests in Panama show growing middle-class opposition to his rule. After pro-Noriega demonstrators damaged the U.S. embassy in Panama in June, Washington suspended military and economic aid; the freeze will continue, suggested Secretary of State George Shultz, until Panama's military gets out of politics. "There's been a decision made that we can afford to let the relationship deteriorate a little bit," says a State Department policymaker. The Pentagon and some in the intelligence community, concerned about Cuban activity in Panama...