Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Republicans suggested that Bush take Kirkland's proposals seriously. Fighting the hike had become embarrassing for Republican lawmakers since they had energetically backed a cut in the capital gains tax that would mainly benefit wealthy investors. They warned that another veto might be overridden. "We don't need to be known as the party that squeezed the last penny out of the minimum wage," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. After the Administration signaled its agreement, the measure passed the House by a vote of 382 to 37. Quick approval is expected in the Senate, and the President could...
...quick challenge to the Flag Protection Act of 1989, passed by Congress last month amid an orgy of jingoistic rhetoric. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law on constitutional grounds, as seems likely, Congress might be stampeded into approving an anti-flag burning amendment urged by President Bush. It might be wiser to turn down the heat...
...George Bush has decided that, for a while at least, he can live without a capital-gains tax cut. After failing to force the Senate to include such a reduction in next year's budget bill, Bush abandoned the idea last week. The President's backdown could provide the basis for a compromise that would undo $16 billion in across-the-board spending cutbacks that went into effect last month. If no agreement can be reached, $8.1 billion will be slashed from popular programs such as Medicare and college loans...
...National Security Adviser travels by Stealth bomber. The true head of Government is a secretive CIA director who also happens to be dead. Larry Gelbart's fiercely funny Broadway satire lampoons events that made the evening news the sharpest comedy on TV. Joseph Daly is a dead-on George Bush, and the dialogue is an S.J. Perelmanesque stream -- debased, obfuscatory and unconsciously self- condemning. Samples: "I wonder if I might ask the Senator to stop raking over dead horses"; "What did the President know, and does he have any idea that he knew it?" The lesson of recent scandals...
...that attitude existed back in 1972, there would have been no embassy here," Nixon commented later. Echoing George Bush's announcement of a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, Nixon likened his discussions with China's leaders to "two ships passing in the night...