Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that it's cliche, but if everyone that reads this letter would write to the White House or merely tell a few friends about it, maybe we'll be able, this time, to avoid repeating the horrors of the past. Andrew Popell...
Koocher says he is quitting after 12 years on the committee to spend more time time with his children, Rebecca and David. Koocher, who works for Blue Cross/Blue Shield, says he will continue to write on social security, medicare, and health policy issues...
...work consisted of more than 400 short stories, film scripts of his novel Fahrenheit 451 for Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough to marry...
...Weekly. "The rules are: Who dares, wins. This is bad news for people who don't dare and who see others win. That's the central problem, I think. I think it's the matter nobody gets completely right." Not in life, perhaps; but this art historian who dared write novels has found the solution in literature...
...before Rostenkowski decided to interrupt the tax-reform deliberations, he saw that the package was in danger of unraveling. The Ways and Means Committee rejected proposals by Reagan and Rostenkowski and voted to allow taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to continue to write off donations to charity. Moreover, the committee opted to widen a $2.9 billion loophole for commercial banks that the President and its chairman sought to close. It decided not to abolish a tax deduction for banks on money reserved to cover possible bad debts. Instead the committee increased the banks' tax break by $4.7 billion over...