Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civil rights bill, tax increases and growing fear of recession. The selection of David Souter, while tactically adroit, underscored Bush's need to move cautiously across a domestic playing field that suddenly looks less dismal to Democrats eyeing 1992. The shift results mainly from the government's failure to contain the mounting deficit (estimated at $169 billion for fiscal 1991), which forced Bush to flee never-never land on the tax issue. That, along with the soaring costs of the S&L scandal and other problems, is beginning to eat into Bush's standing in the polls and will echo...
...rational grounds. The Nixon on view in Yorba Linda is a version carefully controlled by Nixon himself. His is the only President's library built and operated entirely with private funds, except for the Rutherford B. Hayes library in Fremont, Ohio. The library is Nixon's show. It will contain only a very careful selection of the presidential papers. The original papers are stored in a government archives in Alexandria, Va. Nixon has succeeded in blocking the release of 150,000 pages of documents. One can understand why a man who failed to burn the White House tapes that eventually...
...stipends contain no stipulations on spending...
...were hospitalized after a fire in a resin-producing unit. That same day explosions severely damaged the 886-ft. oil tanker Mega Borg, spewing a 30-mile-long slick off the Texas coast. Early last week traffic was halted on the busy Houston ship channel while firemen struggled to contain a roaring oil fire that shot flames more than 90 ft. into...
Only one other person was in view, a man in shorts with a water truck, standing alone in the road trying, through smarting eyes, to contain the flames with a hose. Alone, he aimed his hose at waves of flame that crashed like waves around us, now coming to a crest, and now, for a while, subsiding, until suddenly they were there again, leaping over a ridge and bearing down upon...