Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should be our eventual goal," she writes, "but it should not be our next goal." A commitment to Mars, she warns, could imperil NASA's plans to put a shuttle fleet back in operation and build a space station. It would also require a tripling of the agency's budget during the mid-1990s -- an unrealistic prospect...
...current bull market is unlike any in the memory of the most seasoned stock traders: there has never been one that has whirled up so fast for so long with so little interruption. Nothing so far has been able to stop the bull. Not worries about gargantuan budget and trade deficits. Not a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. dollar between 1985 and mid-1987. Not even the stock-market equivalent of the law of gravity, specifying that the most rapid advances ought to be broken now and then by a substantial downward correction in prices...
...option for shielding the continent from Soviet coercion would be a rapid buildup in conventional forces. However ideal, this option would be impractical considering the country's already strained fiscal resources. Nuclear weapons just happen to be cheap, and increasing our expensive conventional armies would wreak havoc on the budget deficit...
...Reagan-Wright plan set a Sept. 30 deadline, the end of the current budget year, for the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua to demonstrate a willingness to institute the kinds of reforms that could lead to a cease-fire...
...have adopted that policy. One motorist was seen sporting a window sign that said DON'T SHOOT!!! I'M SORRY. An Orange County firm is marketing a reversible car sign that offers an angry warning on one side and a PLEASE DON'T SHOOT plea on the other. The Budget-Rent-A-Car agency in western Los Angeles reports a 300% increase in requests for bullet- resistant cars...