Retirement GAO chief urges repeal of Davis Bacon Act
Elmer Staats told House Budget Committee that eliminating waste could save billions, with $10 billion yearly from Pentagon waste alone. He urged repealing the Davis Bacon Act to erase prevailing local wage rules, increasing competition and cutting federal and state costs on contracts.
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General Accounting Office
Congressional Committee
Elmer Staats
House Budget Committee
Pentagon
Ft. Riley
Hard Hats at Capitol prompt wage law debate in Kansas
Jim DeHoff of the Lawrence Building and Construction Trades Council cites KS 44-201, a 1891 law protecting local workers’ wages, opposing Senate Bill 295 repeal and endorsing Senate Bill 407 to allow wage surveys. He notes the law applies to public construction wages based on local averages, not strictly union rates, and stresses ongoing worker protection in Kansas.
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Capitol
Kansas
Capitol of
Jim DeHoff
Lawrence Building and Construction Trades Council
Nightly TV Schedule Highlights And Obscure Classics
A dense, fragmented TV guide listing many programs from news to dramas and movies. Notable items include M A S H, Little House on the Prairie, The White Shadow, Superman movie, and ABC/NBC/CBS night blocks with Nightline Tonight Show and various films. The list weaves in specials like Pledge Break, Dancing in America, and Gunsmoke with assorted air times and channels.
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TBS News
NEWSD
Anna Karenina
Dick Cavett
Benny Hill
Sylvia
ABC News Nightline
Isga
Johnny Carson
Johnny Matius
Kelly Monteith
Mariin Tale
ABC
Quincy Megimovie
Pick Cavett
Barney Miller
Montesth
Rand
Sanfrancisco
Newhart
Charliethan
Bfantasyisland
Gunsmoke
Lasting Cough and Eye Bright Flashes Explained
Dear Dr Donohue explains that post cold coughs are reflexes from airway irritation and mucus drainage. Cough suppression may be safe, with tea and head elevation at night, but persistent night coughing warrants medical evaluation due to possible lung or retinal issues. Corn syrup is a sugar-containing sweetener. count it in daily sugar and calorie intake.
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Dr. Donahue
Gun debate: HCI drives to overtake NRA in arms policy
Memo from Mac questions if strong gun limits passable under the Second Amendment. It contrasts NRA’s constitutional stance with ABA’s view, notes HCI’s bid to outpace the NRA in numbers and funds, and asks what HCI seeks beyond rhetoric.
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John
NRA
ABA
American Bar Association
Supreme Court
United States
Handgun Control Inc
HCI
Congress
Dynasty ending reign by Peter J Boyer
AP Television Writer Peter J Boyer discusses Esther Shapiro and her ABC prime time soap Dynasty. The piece covers Shapiro's goals perceptions of TV, Dynasty as a slick, well written soap, and its gay subplot with Steven Carrington. It notes viewer backlash and potential cancellation as ABC weighs ratings against rivals Dallas Knot's Landing and Flamingo Road.
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Peter J. Boyer
Los Angeles
Esther Shapiro
Steven
Dynasty
Dallas
CBS
Midland Heights
NBC
Flamingo Road
ABC
Knot’s Landing
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HBO
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Sanford and Son
MacNeil Lehrer
Adamon
Mitchell Page
Surigall
Almaneu
Maornave
Rayad
Wilvelin
BO Ming
Mowe
Michael Gam
Snelley Winters
Ann
Britain
Alistair Guuke Marates
W.A
Potter
America
Graham Crusade
G&d
Lou Grant
Rockford Files
Charlene Lister
Ottawa
Paul Ady
Lister
Jesus
Cedar
Robert B. Wellington
THE
Associated Press
Paul G. Donohue
Mac
National Guard
Gun Lobby
Reagan
John McCormatly
Denver
Blake Carrington
John Forsythe
J.R. Ewing
Carrington
al Corley
Oscar Wilde
Shapiros
Board of Education
U.S.D. No. 290
U.S.D. No. 280
Jack Beauchamp
Encumbant
U.S.D
Anne
Piaza
Morrell
Sirloins Ramily Pak
Waymire’'S Warehouse Foods
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