Word: dente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while fighting off critics who say that such a policy is plunging business into a recession. In the view of a number of economists, it would be unfortunate if the Federal Reserve Board were to change course now, just when its policies are beginning to help make a definite dent in inflation. Reagan told his Cabinet last week that he shares that view. "I want to see the Fed continue monetary restraint and be the fourth leg of our economic program...
Since coming to the Pentagon, the Knife has focused on paring away bureaucratic procedures and recarving department responsibilities. He has yet to make a dent in the bloated Pentagon budget, but his procedural reforms may, in the long run, yield substantial savings. His principal targets: the Pentagon's elaborate and illogical procurement and budget planning processes. Weinberger has appointed a special assistant to search out waste and fraud and has been open to outside ideas. Ehner Staats, on his final day in office as Carter's Comptroller General, sent Weinberger a letter with 15 recommendations to improve Pentagon efficiency; eleven...
...sort of legislation can only make a dent in the Viet Nam vet's profound sense of exclusion, his bruised conviction that America ?a nation that cherishes almost an ideology of its own fairness?has done him deeply wrong. The vet's first port of call, the Veterans Administration, seems to him abundant evidence that the nation he risked his skin for cares very little in return. The VA is, they say, a $23 billion-a-year bureaucracy devoted mainly to older vets (the World War II generation), a social service agency dispensing health care not to the wounded...
...Poland. Asked to clarify, Weinberger cryptically replied, "There's no linkage yet." Even that response seemed injudicious and ill-timed: Moscow might seize on the threat of a U.S.-China arms deal as one more excuse to invade Poland, and any weapons the U.S. might provide would barely dent the Soviets' overwhelming military superiority to China...
...models, has been put off for at least a year. The requirement to equip cars with dashboard gauges that tell drivers when their tires are underinflated was eliminated. The Reagan Administration also modified the regulation requiring bumpers to withstand crashes at speeds of up to 5 m.p.h. without a dent...