Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared over the years, by Republicans and Democrats alike. They are now writ ten and filmed before a President be gins speaking and aired only minutes after he finishes, leaving no time for anyone to digest what he actually has to say. Observes Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber: "The form that has evolved here is really intriguing. It's the speech vs. the film, then the speech vs. the film vs. the analysts...
Most of the modifications suggested by community group leaders concerned design, particularly the way the building's facade will look. Les Barber, zoning director at the Cambridge Community Development Department, said...
...stand-by tax increases to be a "Rube Goldberg" scheme that the legislature will reject. The tax-writing committees of Congress are loath to let the President specify the conditions under which levies should be raised. Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Barber Conable of New York, a tax expert in the House, put their opposition on the record last week. Many Congressmen and Senators also feel that a plan to raise taxes only if certain conditions prevail is inadequate. They will propose a surcharge that would take effect in late 1985, come what...
...Commission on Social Security Reform hammered together the agreement hours short of its Jan. 15 deadline. The commission's success, after months of deadlock, may have saved the entire Social Security issue from becoming fatally ensnared in a ferocious wrangle on Capitol Hill. Even so, predicts Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York, one of the so-called Gang of Five that helped produce the 15-member commission's compromise agreement: "The package will be assaulted from all sides...
...Government is not the system," says the wise and amiable G.O.P. Congressman from New York Barber Conable. "We keep forgetting that in Washington. Government can help. But for the most part Government is behind the curve. It responds to the people." The people now are moving away from Reagan in blocs, weakening his base of power. If there is no change soon, his presidency will be largely ceremonial for the next two years...