Word: bowsher
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Three players on the men's basketball team were not recruited: junior Steve Bowsher and seniors David Lang and Kevin Collins. Bowsher played J.V. for two years. Basketball coach Pete Roby describes Bowsher as a "great person to have in practice...
...computer systems that handle securities trading on the New York Stock Exchange suffered repeated breakdowns the week of the crash, adding significantly to the confusion and fueling the selling panic. "The October crash was a crisis that nearly became a disaster," said Comptroller General Charles Bowsher, head of the GAO. "Somebody's got to take a hard look at these systems...
...another development, the head of the General Accounting Office said his agency has prepared a classified report that traces the shipments of U.S. arms to Iran, and expects to present its findings next month to congressional committees. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher said the GAO also had begun an effort to trace the flow of arms sales profits to the Contras in Nicaragua...
...budget deficits that have become a Washington way of life over the past two decades. Right now. Congress knows that the deficit must be cut, but naturally dreads deciding on its own whose funds should be cut. So the legislators left it to U.S. Comptroller General Charles Bowsher to trim $11.7 billion from this year's budget. Then beginning with the fiscal-1987 budget that Reagan must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until...
Senator Pat Moynihan asked Comptroller General Bowsher, at a hearing last week, whether the various exemptions did not mean that the vulnerable areas of domestic spending will actually have to be slashed by a devastating 25% next year and vulnerable defense outlays by perhaps 18%. "That's in the ball park," said Bowsher, thus conjuring up a ball park stripped of seats, gates and outfield fences...