Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mailing last spring to drum up money and support for Reagan's budget cuts, Helms wrote that "liberal pressure groups are at work, organizing to flood Congress with mail demanding that liberal food stamp and welfare giveaways not be cut. Sadly, this pressure, if not offset, could be successful." The effort to stop the ultraliberals, the mailings usually suggest, arises because "the Lord may very well be giving us one last chance to save America." The letters typically end: "God bless you always. Sincerely, Jesse...
Moreover, Wall Street was alarmed last week over reports that the flood of red ink may be growing, since that will increase the rate of borrowing even more. Though the Administration is sticking to its July forecast of a fiscal 1982 deficit of no more than $42.5 billion, projections last week by the Congressional Budget Office put the figure at closer to $60 billion. The Data Resources economic forecasting firm expects a budget shortfall of as much as $66 billion in the year ahead. If those figures are correct, Washington next year will have to borrow perhaps $25 billion more...
DIED. Lowell Thomas, 89, prolific journalist and pioneering broadcast commentator; of a heart attack; in Pawling, N.Y. Born in Woodington, Ohio, Thomas wrote for newspapers in Cripple Creek and Denver, Colo. In 1924 he published his first and most popular book, With Lawrence in Arabia. A flood of more than 50 titles followed. Beginning in 1930, Thomas combined the roles of globetrotter and radio network broadcaster with élan and energy. He hunted tigers in India, covered virtually every battlefront in World War II, and in 1949 met with the Dalai Lama in Tibet. Thomas began a new radio show...
...case is a typical small-claims dispute, just one of thousands that flood into Los Angeles courts every month. But instead of fighting it out in a real courtroom, the litigants agreed to square off in a TV studio for a new show called The People's Court. The half-hour daily program will debut during the next two weeks in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 36 other cities. Created by Veteran Producers Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life) and Stu Billett, the show presents two cases an episode, both drawn from small-claims courts...
Streams and flood plains have been left alone. It also provides living proof that the races can live together. What is really important about Columbia is the marvelous advance in race relations...