Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result is intended to be a station that is bigger and more versatile and that flies higher than the model previously planned by the U.S. But it will never become a reality if Congress, already fed up with NASA's constant cost overruns, balks at funding the project. Even though congressional leaders from both parties have cautiously endorsed the plan to join forces with the Russians, one more major space failure could blow the whole deal...
...Bears notched the go-ahead goal just 35 seconds into the third period as senior defender Cassie Whittet scored her first tally of the season. At 14:16 of the third freshman right-wing A.J. Mleczko fed Alissi on a two-on-one break and Alissi slipped her second goal of the day past the Brown goalie and sent the game into overtime...
First they suffered a decade of relentless layoffs and wage cuts. Then they watched hopefully as corporate profits and stock prices bounced back from the recession. But now many American workers are impatient and fed up. Their common plea: When do we get our share of the comeback? Their discontent seemed ready to boil over last week, even as striking flight attendants returned in triumph to their jobs at American Airlines. No sooner had American resumed its normal flight schedule than pilots and mechanics at United Airlines began a slowdown to protest the prospect of thousands of new layoffs...
That pool, constantly fed by new streams of immigrants, has produced in the U.S. of 1993 what author Ben J. Wattenberg has labeled "the first universal nation," a truly multicultural society marked by unparalleled diversity. It has also brought fresh challenges for the U.S. -- and considerable doubts among Americans about the wisdom of continuing the country's traditional open- door policy toward new immigrants...
...White House and Congress are fed up with giving NASA a blank check for cost overruns and failed missions. Two years ago, the agency asked for a five- year budget of $106 billion, but the Bush Administration chopped it to $96 billion, and Clinton's budget cutters have set a target of $71 billion for the same period. The President has decreed that Space Station Freedom will be built only if NASA teams up with its old space-race rivals, the Russians, to develop a joint project that minimizes costs...