Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal with the epidemic, Reagan appointed a presidential commission of 13 people, many with dubious qualifications. After three months, the chairman, a doctor, resigned in frustration and was replaced by an admiral. The commission's final recommendations are supposed to appear next summer. Beyond that, the Administration busied itself in imposing compulsory AIDS tests on certain defenseless groups (federal prisoners and would-be immigrants, for instance), a move that compromised civil rights without accomplishing much of anything. Gay rights groups excoriated the Administration for inactivity, and the New York Times concluded that Reagan's lack of a coherent policy...
...halt. This year's 2,300-page manuscript kept company with a "reconciliation bill" that detailed the tax hikes and spending cuts decreed by a White House-Congress summit last November to cut the deficit by some $76 billion over two years. Despite its elephantine size, the final product may have but a mousy impact on a stock market struggling to recover from Black Monday...
Numbers have always consoled him. In his final appearance in the batter's box, at twilight in Cincinnati, Rose struck out on three fastballs from Goose Gossage ("I had two strikes on me before I could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager...
...Counsel James McKay, who issued an interim report last week that fell short of fully clearing him. He said there was "insufficient evidence as of this date" to accuse the Attorney General of having "knowingly participated" in any crime. But, he added, "this is an interim, and not a final, determination." Referring to Meese, McKay explained that he eventually hopes to pursue a "number of unresolved questions on his involvement with Wedtech Corp. and other matters...
...early 1984, Gorbachev was already a candidate to succeed his former mentor. At Andropov's funeral, Gorbachev made a telling gesture of his closeness to the late General Secretary: he was the only Politburo member publicly to console Andropov's bereaved widow Tatyana. But the Old Guard made a final stand, choosing Chernenko instead. Gorbachev went along, and even agreed to make the nominating speech. He probably knew his turn would come soon enough. Ailing and 72, Chernenko was not going to last long. In fact, through much of his year in power Chernenko was so ill that Gorbachev...