Word: business
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House members generally agree that the budget will be the main item of busi ness this session and that it should be as lean as possible. Even liberals acknowledge that the nation's problems do not appear to yield to money and to Government intervention. "We haven't had the pruning of the programs that don't work," admits Abner Mikva, a leading liberal Democrat who was re-elected from Chicago's North Shore suburbs by a scant 1,000 votes. "Because of that, all of Government is carrying a burden of presumed incompetence and inefficiency...
That is because the real busi ness of conventions, as any rank-and-file registrant will at test, is not formulating industry-wide policies or discussing pressing issues of the day in open session, but gossiping, making contacts, winning contracts or finding...
...music teacher, soliciting her influence to gain a hearing for his electronic compositions. Nor is his attack a brutish lunge out of the dark. The rape is strictly high fashion - a handsome bedroom setting, the victim tied prettily with silk scarves while he sodomizes her, the whole busi ness staged and photographed with stylish prurience...
...sinner, he does not amount to much, but he does have that Nazi busi ness to brood about...
...with chickens - hence the bordello's name. In more prosperous times, the house was good for the town's econ omy. Says Lester Zapalac, publisher of the La Grange Journal, the town's only newspaper: "The girls bought all their clothes here, their eats. It brought busi ness for the community." When the town would hold a big barbecue, the girls at Edna's, of course, were not in vited. However, the townsfolk would often send some leftovers back to the girls. The fund for the new La Grange hospital was enriched $10,000 grace...