Bill Dedman Quotes
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Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.
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If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.
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Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.
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The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
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State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
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'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
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Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
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FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.
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In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
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The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
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In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.
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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
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America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.
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William Andrews Clark was caught in a bribery scandal during a campaign for the U.S. Senate - he was said to describe the Montana legislators this way: 'I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.'
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Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
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In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
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History is the best guide to the future.
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Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.
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In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.
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Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
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Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent.
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The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
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Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.