Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed like a classic outbreak of "now-nowism," as Budget Director Richard Darman, who helped broker the deal, labels the nation's hunger for immediate gratification...
...hoped to find a niche for the midsize airline by developing a hub at the Kansas City airport, an opening that was created by a retrenchment at bankrupt Eastern Airlines. But Braniff's business failed to grow fast enough to support its debt payments. When a recent bridge financing deal for $75 million fell through, Braniff was strapped for cash. The bankrupt airline, which has laid off 2,800 of its 4,800 employees, hopes to rebuild slowly...
...journalists, including anchors of ABC and CNN national networks, lent it a tone of drama and urgency. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's day had a President called the nation's Governors together. Topping F.D.R.'s agenda was a search for ways to cope with the Depression. Bush sought to deal with a crisis whose long-range results could prove no less catastrophic for American power and prosperity: the failure of U.S. schools to teach the basic skills needed to keep Americans productive and competitive...
...need is love, John Lennon promised. Sometimes that's true. Then again, there are the children like Mickey who need more. They may need hospital care because their mothers used crack during pregnancy. They may need psychiatric treatment to deal with the effects of sexual abuse. They may need wheelchairs, costly medication, special classes. And without a doubt, they will need a home...
Shevardnadze's new flexibility on Star Wars was in part offset by his warning that the Kremlin would abrogate a future START treaty if the U.S. goes too far with SDI testing. And the Senate would certainly want to review any deal on Star Wars as part of a START ratification process. "The Soviets made a constructive step which may facilitate negotiations," concludes House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Dante Fascell. "But it only puts off the day of reckoning...