Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with Mitchell's efforts, Brandeis would not quit. A short leaner by David Brooks cut the Harvard lead to 44-41 with 2:43 to play...
Conventional forces aside, the United States and Soviet Union are negotiating a proposed 50 percent cut in long-range nuclear weapons, as well as a proposed ban of chemical weapons...
...Secretary Dick Cheney and moderates led by Secretary of State James Baker, who favor a more active U.S. role in helping perestroika succeed, has been decisively resolved in the moderates' favor. Whether by conviction or coercion, Cheney has lately been cooing like a dove. By ordering the Pentagon to cut as much as $180 billion from its projected spending plans through 1995, Cheney indicated that Washington is ready to make deeper cuts in military expenditures -- and by extension, in U.S. troops stationed in Europe -- than it had previously contemplated. Said Cheney: "It's clear that the likelihood...
...reflected political and budgetary realities more than a major rethinking of U.S. defense needs. Faced with a lingering $110 billion deficit, Congress long ago abandoned Pentagon plans to increase defense spending each year. Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter and the Army's LHX attack helicopter...
...taken aback. After stressing for months how important it was for the U.S. to stay competitive in high technology, the Bush Administration was getting ready to pull the plug on its two most widely publicized high-tech initiatives. According to reports circulating in Washington, the Administration was determined to cut not only the $10 million it had pledged for research into high-definition television, but all federal support -- including $100 million in 1991 -- for Sematech, the Reagan-era industrial consortium designed to catapult the U.S. into the lead in the technologies for manufacturing computer chips...