Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third set, Harvard controlled the early part of the match, taking a 6-1 advantage. But the Tigers fought back to close the deficit...
Cutting the budget deficit is a task for America's best and coolest-headed. But even they are pounding the table in frustration, as was the case last week when the bipartisan National Economic Commission met. Congress created the panel last December, hoping it would produce a consensus on deficit-trimming measures (and take the heat off Congress to do so). But the deliberations, hemmed in by untouchable Social Security benefits on one side and antitax sentiment on the other, have taken on a sense of futility...
...defense issues, member Caspar Weinberger was up to his old game, calling for increased spending. Democratic Co-Chairman Robert Strauss took him to task for proposing new outlays without providing fresh income. Strauss reminded the former Defense Secretary that members had sworn an "oath to deal with the deficit." Weinberger retorted that there was nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since the candidates...
...also handled many of its broadcast logistics. TIME senior editor Terry Zintl provided on-air analysis of the voting results. TIME also distributed guidebooks and a questionnaire on key issues. That survey showed, among other things, that 80% of students and parents opposed new taxes to reduce the federal deficit, and 61% favor a treaty drastically reducing U.S. and Soviet nuclear-missile stockpiles. Asked to compare their future financial prospects with their parents' current circumstances, 43% of the students said they expected to be better off, and only 11% thought their standard of living would decline...
...luxury of not endorsing." The Times decried a "no-issue campaign" in which George Bush has run "irrelevantly, like someone seeking to be Grand Inquisitor" and Michael Dukakis has run "mechanically, like a candidate for Plant Superintendent." What tipped the scales to Dukakis for the Times was the budget deficit and Bush's plan to cut the capital-gains tax; for the Globe, it was Dan Quayle...