Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dole (R.-Kan.): The senator wasone of the original sponsors of a savings planbased on the Individual Retirement Account model.He has also advocated selective aid to collegesand universities to support their research, and,along the lines suggested in the FridayCommission's Report, says that the federalgovernment must further enlist universities tohelp restore American competitiveness. Although hesays he supports continued funding for the PellGrant progam and GSLs, he says they must betargeted to those who need them most...
...when Delvalle met in Miami with Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Some sources said Abrams broached the idea of firing the strongman to remedy the political and economic crisis that has gripped Panama since anti-Noriega demonstrations took place last summer. According to one account, Abrams told Delvalle, "You know as well as I do that Mr. Noriega has to leave." Several days later Panamanian official asked Abrams whether the U.S. could withdraw the drug indictments against the general to induce him to step down. The answer: no deal...
...news account on March 2 incorrectly identified four doctors on a fact-finding team sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights. Drs. Bennett Simon and Leon Shapiro are associate clinical professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Jennifer Leaning is director of emergency services for the Harvard Community Health Plan. The leader of the team, H. Jack Geiger, is a professor of community medicine at the City University of New York Medical School...
What this guy told me, however, was that for the proper shave, one must progress in distinct stages, always following the curvature of the face, moving from top to bottom, but also taking into strict account the particular needs of the jaw line and chin with several short, quick strokes, as deemed necessary, following the shave with four-to-five splashes of cool--approximately 75 degrees, never below 60--water, a half-ounce of one's preferred aftershave, and then a towel pat down to remove excess moisture from the skin...
...object of the exercise was not to come up with the best theoretical plan for eliminating the deficit, taking no account of the political obstacles that almost invariably thwart Congress and the White House. Rather, the purpose was to demonstrate that achieving a balanced budget necessarily involves broad- based sacrifices that may be unpleasant but are hardly catastrophic...