Word: tapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...September, Martinez called for a repeal of the tax amid a blizzard of criticism from advertisers, real estate agents and citizen groups who complained about inequities and red tape. Last month the legislature replaced the services tax with a penny increase in the state sales tax. Critics contend that the new 6% duty will raise no more than half of the estimated $52.9 billion that Florida will require for roads, schools, prisons and hospitals in ten years...
...Guadalajara of a secret police unit run by the Interior Ministry. Espino Verdin, yet another of those indicted last week, was arrested by Mexican police last year and charged with Camarena's murder. But authorities have vetoed the agency's requests for extensive samples of his voice on tape so that they can be compared electronically with the interrogation recordings. Mexican officials also destroyed most of the physical evidence collected in the Guadalajara house owned by Caro Quintero where Camarena is believed to have been held...
...thick Greek accent threatening to kill him was unaccountable, but not really strange. Most of the time was spent as an accountant at Touchstone Pictures might have planned, attending brunches, talking with celebrities, attending luncheons, watching movies, attending dinners. We members of the press accumulated our meticulous notes and tape-recordings, got tipsy, ate too much, and sat around being friendly with strangers...
Imagine the uproar if a television tape were discovered in which, say, Bob Dole argued that only devout Christians and Jews were entitled to serve in government...
...month before the Iowa caucuses, has there been any outcry over Robertson's TV tape? Not a bit. None of the Republican presidential candidates have dared to challenge Robertson on the church-state issue, even though the former televangelist may run third in Iowa. This seeming immunity from reproach is reminiscent of the see-no-evil response to Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" slurs about New York City in 1984. The Democrats running last time out made only muted responses to those anti-Semitic comments, nor did they stress Jackson's ties with black Hatemonger Louis Farrakhan. Last fall Jackson received...