Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sensible way of getting about in the strangling, traffic- plagued city. Bicycles have long been a major mode of transport in Europe and Asia; there are as many as 230 million of them in China. Now they have taken to U.S. streets with a vengeance. According to Bill Wilkinson, director of the Bicycle Federation of America, roughly 2 million people commute to work on bikes, up from approximately 500,000 a decade...
...fiscal pick-me-up is finally cut off. Last week the House and Senate passed a measure that would revive the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law and stanch the federal red ink to a target of $144 billion during the 1988 fiscal year. Though President Reagan will sign the bill this week, he warned that he would fight tax hikes or deep cuts in defense spending...
...punter Bill Sansone was able to get his kick away, but a leaping Crimson defender tipped it as it started to fly overhead. The kick wobbled, and bounced crazily out of bounds only six yards past the line of scrimmage...
Proponents are more optimistic this year because Sen. Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.) has introduced the oceans commission bill in the Senate. A hearing is expected this fall, said Weicker aide Hank Price...
...bill authorizes $44 million for fiscal year 1988, $58 million for 1989 and $64 million for 1990. The measure was approved...