Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...savvy that left his opponents reeling in disarray. For a President supposedly untutored in the ways of Washington and suspected by some of lacking the acumen and the energy that the Oval Office demands, Reagan has proved to be astonishingly sure-footed and dynamic. As House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas told him in a congratulatory phone call: "We can see you're ready for the big time...
Fluor Corp. paid $2.7 billion to acquire St. Joe Minerals. The Kennecott copper company fought off a takeover attempt by Curtiss-Wright Corp. this year, only to be swallowed by Standard Oil Co. of Ohio. The oil companies are both the hunters, because their coffers are overflowing with petroprofits, and the hunted, because of the value of their deposits still in the ground...
...debate in the House of Representatives was the angriest in ages. Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas shook the rafters with an accusation that the Reagan Administration wanted Congress to "lie down submissively" and let it "dictate every last scintilla" of the 1982 budget. Republican Leader Robert Michel blasted back that the only amendments the majority Democrats wanted to let his party offer to the budget bill were "bastards of the worst order for which we disown any parental responsibility." The vote, on a key procedural test, was suspensefully close: 217 to 210, with 29 Democrats breaking party ranks...
...soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
...Washington bearing the good news that Napoleon had agreed to the Louisiana Purchase. Teddy Roosevelt was the first occupant of the White House to fly, even though he was no longer President when he did so. After some difficulty getting through the wires supporting the wings, he boarded a Wright biplane in St. Louis in 1910, flew at 200 ft. for three minutes without a seat belt, waving his hat. "Bully!" he declared...