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The sun was sinking out of sight at the end of 43 rd Street, where signs no longer read "43 rd Street" but instead "43 rd Street: Adolph S. Ochs Street," in tongue-twisting homage to the patriarch of the New York Times . Five or six neon-striped storefronts seem to have sprouted in the past five or six days.
After being informed of the intelligence agency's assessment, Majority Leader Trent Lott decided to rush the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to a ratification vote, in the hope of sinking it by arguing that CIA uncertainty makes the test ban unenforceable.
AMORTIZATION -The gradual extinguishment of any amount over a period of time through a systematic allocation of the amount over a number of consecutive accounting periods such as the retirement of a debt by serial payments to a sinking fund.
Phil Gramm, R-Texas, appeared more stupid than brave when he walked into the Democrats' trap on CBS's Face the Nation . Gramm compared Medicare to a sinking Titanic that shouldn't accept any new people, to which Clinton loyalists George Stephanopoulos (ABC's This Week ) and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala ( Face the Nation ) responded with the administration's line.
226, which would require unions to get annual permission from individual members to make any political use of dues, is, despite a commanding early lead in the polls, now sinking fast.