Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That would increase the government's cost of financing the $2.7 trillion national debt, which would be bad news for President Bush, who is trying to trim the budget deficit without raising taxes...
Post middie Ray Esposito finally broke freshman goaltender Chris Miller's shutout with 1:48 remaining in the half, and a Greg Milard missile over Miller's shoulder cut the deficit to three early in the second half...
Both sides in the dispute realize that a strike at the financially hemorrhaging carrier may finally send Eastern to "the corporate graveyard," as Lorenzo puts it. Eastern posted record losses of $335 million in 1988 and since then has been losing an estimated $1 million a day, a deficit that can only grow during the strike...
...reaffirmed his pledge to be the "education President." Yet the $36.5 billion he earmarked for education was $200 million less than the amount requested in the last Reagan budget. The decrease points up Bush's central problem in keeping his promise: how to improve education while chopping the deficit. Faced with daunting fiscal constraints, Bush finds choice an ideal program, since it stresses competition without involving major federal funding. So far, however, the President has neither provided strategy for supporting the plan nor suggested what might be done to ease racial and economic inequities...
...know if I was winning or I was losing. I didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days."--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about her rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Yale's top-ranked fencer at the Northeast Regionals last weekend in New Haven...