Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supported the bill. Far more effective, however, was a letter-writing campaign by one of the House's mightiest chairmen, burly Dan Rostenkowski of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. He and Chairman John Dingell of the Energy and Commerce Committee were incensed that Pepper had struck a deal to bypass their committees and take the bill directly to the floor. Rostenkowski sent out a barrage of "Dear Colleague" letters attacking the measure, and it was killed on a procedural vote...
...understand American defense, think of an extremely wealthy man who has gone to a gambling casino for a long binge, gotten hopelessly drunk, wasted a great deal of his money and awakened with a severe hangover to find that he has married a woman who is a complete stranger. The man's condition is scarcely fatal, but scarcely one to be desired...
That is a rare, fancy metaphor that can be backed up by hard numbers. The Pentagon has indeed been on a long binge: in the eight years of the Reagan Administration, Congress will have handed it $2.2 trillion -- trillion! A good deal of that has been dribbled away in heedless, indiscriminate spending. Now the bills are coming due -- literally, in the case of a number of supersophisticated weapons systems nearing production. Meanwhile, the Defense Department has been forced by the overall federal budget squeeze to embrace a decidedly unfamiliar, and in its eyes hideous, new bride: austerity...
...taking part in government." But less than two weeks later, the President was pleading for a Socialist majority. What had changed? The emergence, said Mitterrand, of a new threat to the "values of freedom, equality and respect for others." That danger, suggested the President, was implicit in the electoral deal struck in Marseilles between the xenophobic National Front and the mainstream conservative alliance...
...punch, he points out, will come from boycotts and threats to withdraw union funds from banks; only such actions will turn executives against IP. "I'd much rather see rich businessmen fight it out in the boardroom," Rogers says. "You can't embarrass them. You have to make them deal with real economic or political pressure." The question is whether the pressure will build fast enough to budge IP before the strikers lose hope...