Word: alabama
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...members of the Senate, however, were not rolling in clover. Alabama Democrat Donald W. Stewart said that he had assets of between $355,000 and $890,000, but that he owed between $505,000 and $1.1 million. Massachusetts Democrat Paul E. Tsongas has assets of about $50,000 more than his liabilities, including a debt to Yale Law School...
Following his speech, Bush took off in a chartered DC-9 for a four-day, nonstop tour of most of the New England states and Florida and Alabama-all crucial to him because of their early February and March primaries. He must make a good showing fast or he is almost sure to sink among all the contenders. At each stop Bush, lean, elegant and softspoken, handled the crowds with the easy grace of a Yankee patrician to the political manner born. His father, Prescott Bush, was a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. George Bush went to Phillips...
There was serious flooding too in Alabama, where the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers similarly rose under the impact of the rainstorms, but fewer people were endangered. Also hard hit by springtime flooding were parts of Texas, Minnesota and North Dakota. Fortunately, there was little loss of life. Though saddened by the destruction, a Jackson couple were philosophical as they waded up to their waists in the den of their home. "These are just material possessions," said Elsie Defore to her husband. "We still have each other...
Meanwhile, two environmentalists yesterday blamed federal works projects for contributing to the record floods in Mississippi and Alabama...
...When a script is so funny that you gag, that's really the kiss of death because it usually doesn't film that way." But when Milius backed out he took it on. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the scriptwriters, flew to the Close Encounters location in Alabama and the three would rearrange schemes and characters. Says Spielberg: "I was being dragged helplessly through the streets by this crazo script...