Word: certain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even agility, patience and firmness may not be enough to thread a way through the thicket of obstacles that block freedom for the hostages. For all George Bush's best efforts last week, the only things certain for now are that he has headed off another terrible execution and heard some encouraging words from Iran's new leaders. Yet after a decade of outrage and frustration, the President and the American public may be willing to settle for such small steps while they strain to see, through the latest signals from Tehran, at least a glimmer of hope...
Since the election, though, many Democrats have begun to see a certain expediency in welfare for the wealthy. The reason: a cut in the capital-gains tax would produce a burst of revenue for the Treasury, helping Congress meet its targets for reducing the federal budget deficit, at least in the short term -- the only term that seems to matter in Washington. During the first few years of a lower tax, investors would rush to realize the appreciation on their stocks and other assets and thus pay taxes on them earlier than planned. Once this spurt of early tax collections...
...Communist Party and Solidarity leaders agreed on the broad outlines of a program for achieving political pluralism and a more open economy. That meant, among other things, a continuation of Communist Party rule. Acceptance of the scheme has been grudging at best, and its future course is anything but certain. The delicate political balance is threatened by radicals within Solidarity who are itching to leave the opposition benches and lay claim to the popular mandate the trade union won in the June 4 legislative elections, when it captured all 161 seats open to it in the Sejm...
...dialogue is certain to intensify in coming months because of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. As state legislatures begin to tackle abortion questions, newsrooms across the country will be faced with the tension between personal opinions and public actions. The large Washington pro-choice rally planned for November could prove to be a major test case for reporters determined to march. One journalist who will not be there: the New York Times's Greenhouse, whose last foray into the public arena originally sparked the debate. Says Greenhouse: "I don't intend to make...
...nearly two decades Princeton/Newport paid investors a 19% annual return by using computers to take advantage of small discrepancies between the prices of stocks and their associated warrants, which are the rights to buy stocks at a certain price. But then founding partner Jay Regan got greedy. According to the Government's case, the Princeton/Newport executives tried to manipulate the market, starting in mid-1984, through a technique called stock parking. They arranged to sell some securities at a loss and then repurchase them at the same or slightly higher prices. The party ended one wintry day in 1987, when...