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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean that he can win, that opposition to the deal-expressed last June in a letter signed by 54 Senators (including 20 Republicans) and a House resolution co-sponsored by 252 Representatives-has faded? Some members of Congress did assume that the White House must have made a head count and found enough backing, at least in the Republican-dominated Senate, to avoid rejection of the Saudi deal. To block the sale, a majority in both chambers must vote against it by Oct. 30. "He wouldn't have sent this up here unless he felt sure he was going...
...introduce them when Congress returns from its vacation. Reopening the budget reconciliation process, however, could permit restive House Democrats to renegotiate their concessions. Any restoration of domestic spending cuts will make Reagan's military spending increases all the harder to finance. Even if the Administration can count on enough votes to keep its gains intact, any attempt at another round of reductions would depreciate the political capital that Reagan won in the "historic" votes on spending-and would renew doubts about the wisdom and affordability of multiyear tax cuts. Whatever Reagan decides when he returns to confront this dilemma...
...enough machinery to handle the job." Climatic vagaries have been compounded by perennial Soviet agricultural mismanagement. Incentives to collective farmers to increase production still appear to be lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert: "Collective-farm drivers just stop their trucks along the road somewhere and empty a pile of grain on the ground. Then they come back to collect it to feed their own livestock or to sell privately." So pervasive...
...that grisly ailment of the atomic age, so puzzling to its initial victims, known as radiation sickness. Among the early signs: nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever and diarrhea. By the second week, hair began to fall out, the gums became painfully swollen, the white-blood-cell count fell sharply. Severe exposure usually meant death. Lethal rays did not always come directly from the blasts. The explosions produced some 200 different isotopes, most of them radioactive, with varying half-lives. Days after the bombs fell, survivors were exposed to this "hot" debris as they sifted the rubble...
They did, however, defeat the owners on an important issue that arose out of the strike: whether the days lost would be considered time spent on the roster. According to the settlement, the down time will count toward the six seasons a player needs in the majors before he can qualify as a free agent. The issue is important to a player like Yankee Pitcher Ron Guidry, 30, who, at the start of the 1981 season, needed 168 days of service before he could offer his talents on the open market...