Word: budget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizens and seems to reflect the sense of community that Canadians hold dear. The Liberal and New Democratic fear that Canada would become more like the U.S. will become a painful reality if Mulroney starts to cut away at these programs to attack the country's large budget deficit...
...could Bush not cave in? If a budget stalemate develops because both the President and Congress hang tough, mandated Gramm-Rudman reductions will force an estimated $40 billion in cuts. Defense, the area Bush most wants to protect, will take half of that blow...
...dollar's drop to near postwar lows against the yen. Investors who had sat quietly through candidate Bush's repeated taunts to Congress to "Read my lips -- no new taxes" decided that President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering trade and budget deficits. As the slide started, Bush hastily convened a seaside press conference to reassure nervous markets. With Atlantic waves crashing behind him, he allowed that his new burdens made him feel a bit "shell shocked," adding, "The problems are tremendous...
...domestic subject, the vice president also told Republican governors he would name negotiators for budget talks with Congress "on the first day of my presidency." But he also said he viewed his election as a mandate against new taxes...
...conductress wanted some money. That, in the end, decided where I was going. My budget only went as far as Reading, and there I got off. I stood vacantly watching commuters and families getting into cars, until the tracks behind me were once again empty. I had come to this little town to bury my mind in forgetfulness; it wasn't exactly a desolate port in nether-Morocco, and I saw no boozy-eyed sirens waiting to lure me into a self-destructive spiral of wanton liberalism which would tragically end in the complete disappearance from my memory...