Word: federales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush may have less to fear from critics than from his sly habit of promising big things but providing few dollars for the tasks. He has called himself "the education President" but budgeted little more for schools than did Reagan. His proposals to cut violent crime by doubling federal prison...
-- Another Northwest DC-10 turned back to Detroit immediately after takeoff because the flap controls were not working properly. By week's end many anxious travelers were avoiding bookings on DC-10s. Addressing the fears, Federal Aviation Administrator James Busey maintained that there is no evidence that DC-10s are...
No one was injured in last week's incidents, but the mechanical glitches renewed concern about whether maintenance crews that are stretched thin can maintain an adequate margin of safety. Not only do federal rules require modifications on thousands of older jets but the airlines are expanding their fleets with...
With this bill's substantial funding, we will begin, here and now, to eliminate the ongoing losses of the insolvent firms . . . I'm proud to sign this monster." So said President Bush last week as he stamped into law his long-awaited and much debated savings-and-loan bailout bill...
While the bailout has bold ambitions, its financing is based on a dismaying kind of budgetary sleight of hand that hides the real cost from taxpayers. Of the $50 billion that the Government will spend on the bailout in this fiscal year, $30 billion will be borrowed through bond sales...