Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specter of the Gramm-Rudman law, passed last year, which threatens automatic cuts if the deficit is not reduced to $144 billion in 1987 and to zero by 1991. On Friday a three-judge federal panel declared the triggering mechanism of that law unconstitutional. But pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, its provisions remain in force, adding uncertainty to anxiety in the coming confrontation between Reagan and Capitol Hill...
...State of the Union report, however, Reagan displayed the buoyant optimism that is at the heart of his personal appeal, touting the magic of the free market and the strength of the American people for a revitalization of the nation's economy. "If ever there was an Uncle Sam, it's him," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as he watched a replay of the speech. Although he has embodied Uncle Sam for five years now, Reagan still does so by chastising the Government he heads. "A lumbering giant," he called it, "slamming shut the gates of opportunity." His national...
...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...
...determined housewife-crusader, whose political resources were meager but whose brief and meteoric candidacy had fanned the desire of millions of her countrymen for political change. What had kept the mismatched sides in balance during the course of their 57-day election battle was a promise as potent in appeal as it was frail in prospect. The hope was that the issue would be decided democratically...
...these protections are equally important for cases arising out of political protest and those arising from more mundane activities. A court of appeal which enshrines these protections for both sorts of charges will avoid the problem of having a separate tribunal to hear charges against political activists, will preserve the advantages of the Ad Board's current system and will guarantee to students something that should have been guaranteed them long ago: namely, that whatever they are accused of doing, they will get a fair hearing at Harvard University...