Word: bill
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...politicians in both parties, as well as many economists and business executives, the trade bill is a major advance in the drive by the U.S. to reduce the dangerous gap between its imports and exports -- a deficit that hit a record $170 billion last year. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, called the bill the "most important piece of legislation on competitiveness this country has ever considered" and a "great victory for restoration of U.S. economic leadership...
...contains plenty of election-year goodies for industries. Among them: $2.5 billion in new export subsidies for U.S. farm products, and a provision that will help depressed energy-producing states by repealing the windfall- profits tax on oil and gas. But the drafters of the bill wanted to avoid coddling business. The legislation says industries will be eligible for relief from imports only if they take steps to become more competitive...
...gave yet another negative twist to the 1988 campaign. It also suggested that Reagan, unless carefully managed, could wind up hurting Vice President George Bush while trying to help in the fall election. Last week Reagan played politics in dealing with both the defense budget and the plant-closings bill. With Bush trailing by as much as 18 points in the polls, the campaign has plainly turned into a game of hardball, and the G.O.P.'s most seasoned hurler has taken the mound. "Suddenly," said a Dukakis aide, "Reagan has been much more forcefully deployed...
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...King's administration, Dukakis aides say, their boss began to turn the situation around when he returned to office in 1983. The legislature gave responsibility for sewers and water to a newly created water-resources authority. Although his supporters give Dukakis credit for pushing that legislation, others say the bill was going nowhere until Judge Garrity threatened a ban on new construction unless sewage treatment was upgraded. Says Douglas Foy, of the Conservation Law Foundation: "Dukakis was discreet to the point of being invisible...