Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service, which the Council had originally planned to start on Friday, may be delayed due to contract negotiations, Schmitt said yesterday...
...cuts over five years, most of them for a $500 per child tax credit for families earning under $200,000. But TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty notes that the GOP has avoided saying which programs would be hit. She adds that the bill -- a key part of the "Contract With America" -- might follow the balanced-budget amendment to the Senate graveyard: "Even among Republicans in the Senate, a lot of people are saying we shouldn't be cutting taxes when we're trying to reduce the deficit...
Clinton and Bush Administration officials now admit they knew about Conoco's prospective $1 billion oil contract with Iran. President Clinton nixed the deal by executive order this week. The Houston-based oil firm said today in Senate testimony that it was never told to halt negotiations with Tehran to develop offshore oil fields, despite State Department concerns about Iran's terrorist activities. Senate Banking Committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who held a hearing on the matter today, said that State Department officials misled the company: "The Clinton and Bush Administrations knew and did nothing," D'Amato...
...voted 91-9 to outlaw the practice of imposing new federal mandates on state and local governments without providing adequate funding. The compromise bill is expected to clear the House this week, and be signed into law by President Clinton. It would be the second measure in the Republican "Contract With America" initiative to become law. Nine contract bills have cleared the House. Seven have yet to face a House vote. The "unfunded mandates" bill would not immediately eliminate existing environmental and worker safety requirements. They would be reviewed by a special commission. The bill does not apply to consumer...
According to a letter from NOW to campus organizers, the rally will focus on violence against women in many forms "from anti-abortion terrorism to domestic violence to the tyrannical measures of the Republicans' contract...