Word: covered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news follows you." Indeed, no sooner had Cloud taken on the job in June than the biggest stories of the year rushed out to welcome him, including the Iran-contra hearings and the stock-market crash. With Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, Cloud was responsible for deploying 17 correspondents to cover those events, as well as the unfolding 1988 presidential sweepstakes...
...Committee last week, economists ranging from the very conservative Martin Feldstein to the very liberal John Kenneth Galbraith wrangled about the size and composition of deficit cuts but not at all about their necessity. In this view, the U.S. has about come to the end of its ability to cover giant budget and trade deficits by borrowing from foreign investors. The stock-market crash served as a warning of what would happen if the foreign capital is ever withdrawn; thus the nation must reduce its dependence on overseas borrowing for the long-term health of the economy, at whatever cost...
...system in 1983 by imposing a tax on up to half the Social Security benefits of couples with retirement incomes over $32,000 and of individuals with incomes over $25,000. That tax will bring in about $4 billion next year, and some economists have proposed extending it to cover all Social Security benefits that go to well- to-do families...
...really George Raffield Jr., 21, a rookie officer working undercover for the local police department to ferret out drug use among the 765 students. On Oct. 24 his body was discovered in a clump of cedar trees near town, a .38-cal. bullet hole in the head. "His cover was blown, and he was murdered because of it," said a Texas Ranger investigating the case...
...also complained that at least, by implication, the report accuses the administration of a "cover up" after initial disclosures that money from secret arms sales to Iran was slated for diversion to Nicaragua's Contra rebels...