Word: attaching
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them up and spend them." His stores use about...
...Bush introduced a new clean air bill last year to combat this problem; during the campaign he spoke of individuals' "right" to breathe clean air. But now Bush is threatening to veto this very bill, the first of its kind since 1977, because Congressional Democrats had the nerve to attach real enforcement mechanisms to Bush's platitudes...
...asking, "Are you going to arrest ((the French Communist leader Maurice)) Thorez?" Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans. Stalin signed a Franco-Soviet treaty during De Gaulle's visit, but he didn't attach much importance to it. "When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts." At that time the Communist Party in France was large and powerful enough to have real political influence. It also had arms caches from...
Neil Bush may be the Velcro that Democrats have needed to attach blame for the S&L debacle to the President. Despite being in charge when the multibillion-dollar casino was opened, Republicans have been feigning shock -- shock! -- that any gambling was going on at all. The Administration has belatedly been making a great show of prosecuting the most egregious offenders. Just last week the government charged high-profile Dallas thrift owner Edwin McBirney III with 17 counts of bank fraud. Cleaning up the mess at his Sunbelt Savings Association of Texas, which was taken over by regulators...
...over the middle. NARAL's Michelman is determined to convince the public that parental-consent laws are a sham. Pro-life and pro-choice forces in Congress pledge to wage the fight over funds for rape and incest victims again and again, every time Boxer or her allies attach a rider to a bill. "We'll debate this till we're blue in the face, and there will be blood all over the chamber," says Hyde. And despite the defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in Idaho, and perhaps Louisiana, the pro-life lobby will continue to press...