Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...
...reason is an unusual mixture of efficiency and political naivete at the Commerce Department, where Secretary Robert Mosbacher did not ask Bush to sign a waiver until he knew there would not be enough nonpolitical applicants to fill 2,700 management jobs, which pay up to $18 an hour...
Abortion-rights activists may be winning over politicians and the public, but they still lack the muscle to override their most powerful opponent. Two weeks ago, George Bush vetoed a bill to permit Medicaid to pay for the abortions of the victims of rape or incest. Last week, by a count of 231 to 191, the House of Representatives fell 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to overturn him. Bush then vetoed the District of Columbia's $3.4 billion annual budget because it includes Medicaid funds for abortion...
...These changes we're seeing in Eastern Europe are absolutely extraordinary," George Bush told the New York Times last week. In fact, 1989 will be remembered not as the year that Eastern Europe changed but as the year that Eastern Europe as we have known it for four decades ended. The concept was always an artificial one: a handful of diverse nations suddenly iron- curtained off from their neighbors and force-fed an unwanted ideology. Soviet dominion over the region may someday be regarded as a parenthetical pause (1945-89) that left economic scars but had little permanent impact...
...Francisco Secretary of State James Baker delivered the Administration's strongest endorsement to date of Gorbachev's efforts. "Any uncertainty about the fate of reform in the Soviet Union," said Baker, "is all the more reason, not less, for us to seize the present opportunity." President Bush likewise abandoned a timid U.S. attitude when he granted Hungary most-favored-nation trading status and declared, "We are privileged to participate in a very special moment in human history. We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of Communist nations into pluralistic democracies with market economies...