Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phillips Brooks House (PBH) Cabinet must cut spending on its 51 programs by nearly 60 percent this year, Van L. Truong '89, the group's president, said yesterday...
...stretch out the remainder, the PBH cabinet plans to pull only $15,000 from the account and to compensate for the decreased revenue by reducing its program grants, Truong said. He said the cabinet plans to exhaust the fund over the next two years, after which the endowment money will provide income for the association...
...only candidate who has run a government. Sen. Paul Simon, Rep. Richard Gephardt, and Sen. Albert Gore '69 have built their careers on Capitol Hill, while Jesse Jackson has never held elected office. Dukakis is the only one who has balanced a budget, formulated a legislative program, led a cabinet, and acted as an executive. He has learned the need for compromise and agreement, which will serve him well in Washington. He has drawn his experience from the act of governing, not sitting in a comfortable Washington office building worrying about PACs and interest groups...
...result of DEA and Customs probes in Mexico, several senior officials have been linked to drug traffickers. U.S. investigators are also pursuing allegations that one Cabinet-rank official accepted payoffs from dealers. At the state level, corruption appears rampant. One DEA investigation tied a large drug operator both socially and financially to five former state governors and at least one current governor. "Corruption has penetrated all levels of the Mexican government," says a ranking U.S. law-enforcement official. "It's vertical, it's horizontal and it's total...
...Independence is the only way for us to go now," says George Mye, chairman of the islanders' 19-member Coordinating Council. After initially dismissing the fuss, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke last week dispatched a Cabinet minister to Thursday, the capital, for discussions. The government then promised to set up a commission to safeguard the islanders' interests every day of the week...