Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure to come, someday. Knowing that, Californians have a choice: either to move to an area less prone to quakes, which few are likely to do, or to make the best preparations they can to deal with them. In that sense, there was something miraculous about the Great Quake of '89. Except for the catastrophe on I-880, the loss of life was remarkably small considering the area's population and the power of the tremor. If last week's quake was a dress rehearsal for police, rescue workers, support services and citizens, they performed admirably. And they learned enough...
Trouble started in the spring, when congressional leaders and the Bush Administration began putting together a deal. The President's goal was to keep his read-my-lips campaign promise of "no new taxes." Congressional leaders wanted to appear to meet deficit-reduction targets without cutting any politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...
...centennial party 13 years ago, there was a nuclear device. So fireworks, by comparison, are hardly a big deal," quipped one Lampy editor...
...They [Harvard officials] are too powerful for a small businessman like me to ever deal with. You're adults and you shouldn't be treated like kids. That's ridiculous," another retailer says...
...proposed institute would not be the first at the Ed School to deal with public policy issues, Murphy said. "We have had several policy research institutes," he said. "The product of their work is advice and we [the Ed School] are in the business of trying to improve practice...