Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corralled congressional leaders and took his cause to the people. "It is time for the American public and our Administration to say that enough is enough," Bush said. If the House weakened the stringent new regulations of the bill, the President warned, he would veto it. By week's end Bush prevailed when the House approved a strong bailout bill by a vote of 320 to 97. In all, 46 Republicans voted against the measure. Since the Senate passed a similar version in April, Bush's plan to rescue the thrift industry is likely to go into effect next month...
...that end, the Zimbabwe government is sending ten of its threatened rhinos to south Texas ranches this summer. The program is supervised by the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, but the bill is being footed by Game Coin, a group of hunters. Rescuing rhinos costs big money: Game Coin has already invested $300,000 in the rhinos at Bentsen's ranch, and will spend more than that to capture and transport the Zimbabwe rhinos...
...prophesied in Scripture, but the end has come. Ten years after the $ Rev. Jerry Falwell zoomed into the right lane of national politics, the Moral Majority is being shut down. Come August, the organization, whose gospel blended Fundamentalist theology and ultra-conservative politics, will close its Washington office. Falwell will devote himself to two Lynchburg, Va., enterprises, the Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University. Ironically, Falwell made the announcement in a city that symbolizes the sins the Moral Majority inveighed against: Las Vegas...
...exhaust and toxic chemicals discharged into the air. In a political tour de force, he managed to draw at least grudging acceptance from almost all sides. Environmentalists were pleased that the plan met their minimum goals. Industry grumbled about heavy costs: $14 billion to $19 billion annually by the end of the year 2000. But utility executives sighed with relief that they would be allowed to choose whatever they found to be the cheapest method of cleaning...
...Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft of as much as $100 million in HUD funds. Says Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, chairman of a House panel that has held hearings on the agency's problems: "The scandal at HUD seems to have no end. It is the most mismanaged department in memory...