Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subtly different. Last week, Ronald Reagan and his aides staged a series of intra-Administration debates and consultations with worried congressional leaders, fanning speculation about just what new budget cuts the President plans to advocate in a major pronouncement later this week. The script was reminiscent of the buildup to Reagan's unveiling of his first round of spending slashes last February; this time, however, there was no expectation in the White House that the results of all the decision-making caucuses would be seen by anyone as an Administration victory...
...recession (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS). Moreover, the now apparent inadequacy of the first series of budget cuts addressed to that goal has forced the Administration into an agonizing internal debate: how to reconcile the budget-balancing pledge with Reagan's equally heartfelt promise to launch a gargantuan military buildup...
Those cuts are small in percentage terms, and would leave the military budget growing more rapidly than Jimmy Carter had planned. But they contradict the Administration's previous ringing vows that it would spend anything that might be required to counter what it sees as a menacing Soviet buildup. Congressional hawks are already asking whether the additional cuts will allow the U.S. to back up a tough foreign policy with the requisite military muscle...
...hour meeting of his top defense and economic officials Tuesday at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. It was by all accounts a demanding and combative session. Though few decisions were reached, it looked as though Reagan was preparing to choose the balanced budget over the outsize military buildup...
Vadala turned the information she had collected over to attorneys, who filed a malpractice suit against Neurologists Wayne Tobin and Michael Aptman. The suit contended that Becky had shown signs of a pressure buildup and a scan was ordered only after she arrested...