Word: directer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade deficit is a direct manifestation of the corrosive effects of the budget deficit on the economy. Congratulations on your tentative agreement with Congress on the budget, but you still have miles to go before you sleep, Mr. President. The government still faces massive deficits...
...indictment, the ethics committee must now judge whether there is "clear and convincing evidence" of the violations. In a couple of cases, the situation remains murky. One question, for example, is whether Fort Worth businessman George Mallick, who showered gifts on Wright and his wife, had a "direct interest" in legislation. If he did not, then Wright's acceptance of the gifts was no violation of House rules...
Committee counsel Richard Phelan insisted that Mallick did have such an interest, if only because his extensive oil and real estate holdings made him much more vulnerable to any change in tax laws than the ordinary American. But Mallick does not meet three standard tests of direct interest: he is not a lobbyist, he employs no lobbyists, and he does not have a political-action committee. By the standard of interest that the ethics committee seems to be applying to Mallick, says one member of Congress, "I couldn't talk to my own mother. She's 65, and on Social...
...celestial intruder was nearly half a million miles away, but considering the devastation a direct hit could have caused, the flyby was too close for comfort...
...University rule that ROTC would never, by any stretch of the imagination, be able to comply with is the one prohibiting student groups from having direct links with national organizations. The problem there is not with ROTC, but with an unfair rule that amounts to an appalling violation of freedom of association. The University should repeal that regulation immediately...