Word: craig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tackle the creeping disease of the deficit, it is going to undermine our economic future." At the other extreme are the supply-siders, who maintain that Reagan's tax-cut program will stimulate enough economic growth to shrink the budget shortfall into insignificance. Asserts Supply-Sider Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration and now a professor of political economy at Georgetown University: "Deficits...
...novel opens, the Soviets are about to buy an American supercomputer, a so-called Craig 1, from France, ostensibly to help them forecast the weather on the steppes of Siberia. In fact, the Soviets intend to use the machine, one of the world's most powerful, to get into Western data banks that contain American military and technological secrets. Rather than objecting to the supercomputer sale, U.S. intelligence officials decide to capitalize on it. They dispatch an M.I.T. scientist to Paris to plant a "softbomb," or programmed booby trap, in the computer's meteorologic software...
...Williams, the Padres' manager who admittedly allowed starter Mark Thurmond to throw one too many pitches Tuesday night, took second game starter Ed Whitson out before the first inning was over, allowing relievers Andy Hawkins and Craig Lefferts to perform their heroics...
...Craig Mertz Califon...
...picture is not entirely bleak. The new season has received an early boost from an unlikely summer hit. Helped by massive promotion during the Olympics, ABC's Call to Glory, an earnest drama about an Air Force family in the early 1960s starring Craig T. Nelson, drew good enough ratings after its mid-August premiere to land a spot on the fall schedule. Its patriotic appeal has won the approval of President Reagan, but the show appears to have more complex ambitions: on one recent episode, the family got involved in a local battle over racial discrimination. Call...