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With drink in hand, you tell yourself not to panic and that you'll just make the best of it while you're there, but vow that it will definitely be a while before Dave sees you again...
...Packwood tossed restlessly in bed on Wednesday night. He had ended the day with an in-your-face vow on Larry King Live that he was not going to quit his Senate post. Yet he was sleepless, pondering the prospect of an expulsion by his Senate colleagues. At about 1 a.m., the Oregon Republican told TIME, his ruminations were interrupted by the click of the air conditioning switching off. As he strained to see the time on his electric clock, Packwood realized there was a power outage. Worried that he might not have adequate light to groom himself...
...bill resonant of arms-race era defense initiatives, the Senate on Friday voted again to augment military spending. Specific outlays called for an additional $1.5 billion for the Seawolf submarine, increased spending on a domestic defense system against missile attack and a vote to scrap an earlier vow to discontinue missile testing...
...some clearer sign of his intentions. The other committee is the Exploratory Draft Colin Powell for President Committee, led by a group of black Republicans. They have sent a letter to Powell urging him to run, appointed regional and state coordinators and printed bumper stickers and buttons, and they vow to collect 20,000 signatures per state by the end of the summer...
When Capitol Hill revolutionaries vow to lift millions of Americans off the dole and into the work force, this is where they would land first, among the more than 10 million Americans who hover one rung above welfare on the nation's "ladder of opportunity." These are people who tiptoe between paychecks and have no savings, who ride the bus to the discount stores, who sell their plasma until their veins scar, who don't bother to clip coupons for Cheerios because the generic version is still cheaper, and who can be wiped out by even a minor medical problem...