Word: 90s
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...replaced until the 1990s. At a public hearing, Levin asked Weinberger, "How in the world did these two carriers slip into the budget?" The Secretary insisted that nothing had changed; since each takes about seven years to build, he was still merely "asking for two in the '90s." He had not cited the carriers in the most recent shipbuilding schedule, he said, because "these are rolling plans." Complained Levin, to loud laughter in the hearing room: "That's a rolling answer...
...controversy over feeding tubes, said J. Stuart Showalter, of CHA's legal department, is becoming one of the most perplexing ethical issues of the 1980s and '90s. Declared he: "Emotions rise, rhetoric becomes strident, and even among the experts there is no consensus." The problem is especially thorny for Roman Catholic institutions, because many right-to-lifers are demanding new laws against what they see as killing by "starvation." Aiming occasional barbs at the strict pro-life stance, most of those who met in Boston insisted that Catholic tradition accepts an end to feeding in medically hopeless cases...
...Crimson, on the other hand, is an extremely young team. Only four of its members are seniors, with the rest of the squad made up of talented youngsters who should carry Harvard swimming into the '90s...
...sacrosanct is the congressional seniority system that the late Carl Hayden, an Arizona Democrat, ruled the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee into his 90s. The current chairman, Mississippi's John Stennis, is 85. The oldest House member, Claude Pepper of Florida, 86, chairs the Rules Committee. "There's something wrong with a system that keeps you from the top job until you're in your 70s," muses Florida Democrat Charles Bennett, 76. "But nobody can come up with anything better...
...when our retaliatory forces consisted of bombers on a small number of bases susceptible to surprise attack? The Administration has underscored that the Soviets invest many times as much as do we in strategic defense. Can our bombers be assured of penetrating the heavy Soviet air defense in the '90s -- especially if we were to "share" our strategic-defense technologies, as we have promised...