Word: burdening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush came forward with a long-awaited bailout plan in which he sought to spread around the unhappiness in an evenhanded way. Said Bush: "Nothing is without pain when you come to solve a problem of this magnitude." His program will require taxpayers and S & Ls to share the burden of a rescue that will cost an estimated $126 billion during the next decade. The taxpayer portion would amount to about $60 billion, which would be contained in the federal budget over the next ten years. The Government would borrow $50 billion by issuing 30-year bonds to be repaid...
Devastated by bad management, rampant fraud and inept Government supervision, hundreds of thrifts are insolvent. The President's rescue plan calls for taxpayers and S & Ls to share the burden of a cleanup that could cost $200 billion over three decades...
...satisfied with the way the European allies are sharing the burden of Western defense...
...says Gold. "You have to be extremely tactful to get him to go along with something. He likes his prerogatives. So down in Houston, Jimmy had a bunch of us there who agreed with him about George's dropping out. He didn't need us there, but spreading the burden was important for Jimmy's continuing relationship with George...
Reality is painted so faithfully and humorously in Mastergate that one begins to wish the hearings had been this way in real life. We are told that the actor Joseph Daly is playing Vice President Burden. But when he delivers lines, or rather Bushisms, like, "Major Battle helped lead his men in the attack in the mud at Pearl Harbor," we cannot help but wish our own administration were so eloquently incompetent. Actor Daniel von Bargen portrays Major Manley Battle, whose lines like "standing orders prevent me from flying on anything but a stealth bomber," even outdo the real-life...