Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...callously opportunistic. He was endangering passage of a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to jobless workers in 27 states and create an estimated 400,000 jobs. In behalf of the nation's well-heeled banking lobby, he hung an amendment on the jobs bill that would cancel the scheduled July 1 start of the withholding of 10% of income from interest and dividends. This is a reform designed to reduce tax cheating and raise nearly $11 billion in revenue in the next three years. Said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "This pits the truly needy versus...
...funds is a political one, which, indirectly, could cause the situation in El Salvador to deteriorate into chaos. The U.S. would be perceived as having abandoned the government, making the guerrillas seem to be a far more formidable force than they really are. Feeling betrayed, the government might cancel any further attempts at land reform and remove any restrictions on its trigger-happy troops, leading to even greater violations of human rights. In that bloody atmosphere, sympathy for the guerrillas might grow, and hopes for the very dialogue that opponents of the funding want to promote would be doomed...
...Chancellor also knows that, according to polls taken during the campaign, nearly 60% of his citizens oppose the new weapons. Kohl has obliquely suggested that he hopes for a softening of the current U.S. bargaining position in the Geneva arms talks away from the "zero option," the offer to cancel the NATO deployment if the Soviets dismantle some 340 SS-20 missiles already in place and mostly targeted on Western Europe. Having won his electoral war, West Germany's newly endorsed Chancellor is just as keen on governing in domestic peace...
...Council also needs a backer, a group which would pay. The Beat a $6000 fee if Harvard has to cancel the concert Having a backer is "mostly a form of insurance." Pratap said adding. "It's very, very unlikely that we would have to cancel the concert...
...issues, warning voters that the country had been living beyond its means for too long. Industrial growth may reach no more than one-quarter of 1% in 1983. The combined federal, state and municipal government budget deficit for 1983 is projected to exceed $31 billion. Vogel had promised to cancel all the austerity measures that Kohl had taken during his five months as Chancellor prior to the election. Kohl's belt-tightening gospel was undoubtedly unpopular, but Vogel's vow to return to freer spending of dwindling government resources apparently turned out to be an unsatisfactory proposition...