Word: shoveling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's newest items really caught my eye. For only $190, I could have a ceremonial groundbreaking shovel. It doesn't look special from the picture, but I could tell it was made from the highest quality plywood and aluminum. Or I could have a ladies' walnut gavel for only $22.50, with my choice of a $10 gavel stand or a 4-inch sounding block for $24. (Men's stand and gavel cost extra...
...Paul's lot is the last available piece of property in the Square. It represents, then, one of the University's last chances to fulfill its responsibility to the community to build some contingent of affordable, low-cost housing. This ends is not served by simply passing the shovel to the seller of the property and saying, "If you want...
This is the same man who, according to his former budget director, fails to grasp even the basic arithmetic of the federal budget. This is the same man whose former chief of staff proclaimed himself part of a "shovel brigade," perpetually cleaning up after the boss. This is the same man who nevertheless placed his trust in a janitorial incompetent, someone more adept at grave-digging than damage control...
...HOWARD H. Baker Jr.'s turn to wield the shovel, but to paraphrase one of the president's favorite homilies, it shouldn't take him long to find a pony beneath all the muck...
...fact, the entire Reagan Administration is committed to a policy of systematic deception. There is no better illustration of this than Chief of Staff Donald Regan '40's candid comments in a recent New York Times interview. "Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follows a parade down Main Street cleaning up," he said. "We took Reykjavik and turned what was really a sour situation into something that turned out really well...I don't say we'll be able to do it [with Iran]. But here we go again, we're trying...