Word: broads
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...House and Senate bills are so broad-they reduce planned expenditures for some 200 federal programs, and in the process amend scores of existing laws -that extensive analysis will be required to determine just what they contain. Some provisions, though potentially important, escaped national attention during the debate (see box). Moreover, in the Democratic-controlled House, after Administration supporters won a procedural fight, they produced in a pell-mell rush a substitute for a bill that had made less draconian reductions in social programs than Reagan wanted. Their hastily drafted proposals, which few Congressmen read, were filled with strikeovers, indecipherable...
...powerhouse of Europe suddenly faces doubts and challenges In the prosperous seaport of Hamburg, some 60,000 young demonstrators, many with their faces painted a ghostly white, marched through the broad streets ten to 15 abreast. They carried signs reading ROCKETS OUT and PEACE WITHOUT WEAPONS. In the same city, just 24 hours earlier, West German Defense Minister Hans Apel was jeered into silence by a congress of devout Lutheran evangelicals, as he tried to explain his government's nuclear defense stand...
...society's benefits. Most scholars, however, do not view the decision as a major high-court retreat on sex discrimination. Says University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard: "I'd call this a military case, not a sex-discrimination case. I wouldn't read any broad signals into...
...budget brawl overshadowed a struggle on a second front: Reagan's push "or his broad multiyear tax cut. There are no serious problems with the Republican-controlled Senate. In fact, Russell Long, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. told the President at a White House meeting, "You have the votes in the Senate to pass your tax bill." At that session, Long's Louisiana colleague, Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, urged inclusion in the package of a "trigger mechanism'' that would eliminate a proposed third year of tax cuts if deficits rose too high. But Reagan...
There was more than good personal chemistry behind the mutual striving for Franco-American entente. Indeed there was a broad range of foreign policy issues on which the Socialist President's views seemed more compatible with Washington's than those of his patrician predecessor. On East-West questions, for example, both Mitterrand and his Foreign Minister have emphatically denounced the Soviet menace in Afghanistan and Poland. In fact, the Socialists have made it clear to Marchais's Communists that they cannot hope to play even a token role in the government without endorsing that condemnation of Moscow's imperialism...