Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year's end the panel would submit a list of proposed base closings to Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, waiving environmental-impact statements. Carlucci must approve or reject the entire list. If Congress votes to save the bases, it could be overruled by a presidential veto. The House bill is similar to a plan passed by the Senate; after the two bills are reconciled, President Reagan is expected to approve. The savings from the shutdowns could be as much as $5 billion annually...
Ironically, congressional trepidation about base closings may be misplaced. A 1977 study of 100 shutdowns found that most local economies were better off without the presence of the military. The Pentagon's Office of Economic Adjustment reported that barracks and bunkers had been transformed into industrial parks, colleges, vocational schools and airports. Where the 100 bases had once provided 93,000 civilian jobs, there were now 138,000 jobs -- a statistic Congressmen may want to have handy in December, when the base hit list is made public...
...political office before 1974. The Democratic sweep in that post- Watergate year was a watershed, bringing to power a talented crop of young reformers -- including Dukakis -- who realized that old-fashioned liberalism was in trouble. Social issues such as busing and crime had eroded the party's blue-collar base, while middle-class voters saw the Democrats as wastrels throwing money at problems. This Democratic class of '74 talked the language of suburban voters concerned with high taxes, yet sympathetic to the party's identification with social tolerance...
...your age. That is the bravery of Ryan, John, Sutton and Nettles as each game they pray that the mind can still command the muscles, that cunning can compensate for crumbling coordination. Men in their 40s are not meant to be gladiators; they are designed to be potbellied third-base coaches spitting tobacco juice, and gray-haired managers storming out of the dugout...
...walking pocket calculator, the choice was shrewd. If Bentsen wins Texas, Dukakis may win the whole enchilada; since Texas became a state in 1845, no Democrat has won without it. Bush will now have to spend time and money defending the South. And, with this once safe electoral base threatened, Bush cannot afford to shrug off a loss in California...