Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governmental issue. The Stockman summaries became a crucial part of G.O.P. strategy. Each committee report-some running to hundreds of pages -was read and boiled down to a few sheets. "We worked a lot of nights into the wee hours," says Stockman with a wan smile. Nor was that flood of hundreds of congressional initiatives his only fare. When Nixon proposed chopping 112 federal programs in 1973, Stockman and his loyal band delved into each...
...pouring into the U.S. in greater numbers than at any time since the last great surge of European immigrants in the early 1900s. Indeed, the U.S. today accepts twice as many foreigners as the rest of the world's nations combined. Thanks in large part to the flood of Cuban and Haitian refugees last year, more than 800,000 newcomers were allowed into the country legally in 1980, up from only 526,000 in 1979. In addition an estimated 500,000 to 1 million entered illegally. Although their turn-of-the-century predecessors were mainly Europeans, today...
THERE ARE TWO kinds of biographies: inspiring accounts that create a vivid awareness of a life, noteworthy or dull; or uninspired accounts of genuinely fascinating lives. Most of the bestselling biographies that flood the market fall into the latter categories--loving accounts of tremendously visible figures. People obviously want to know what it was like to be close to a Fred Astaire, or a Marilyn Monroe, or an Arthur Fiedler. But after the reader's curiosity has coaxed the book's price from his wallet, he is likely to come away with the conviction that--yes--what they taught...
American carmakers last week had one eye firmly fixed on the cashbox and the other on Japan. As the seemingly endless flood of auto company losses continued, the Reagan Administration finally won an agreement with the Japanese government for a "voluntary" cutback of up to three years in the number of autos exported to the U.S. Meanwhile, Detroit was preparing for this week's launching of the latest answer to sluggish auto sales and the Japanese imports: the General Motors J-cars...
Last week, 84 issues and more than $11 million in losses later, Sir James admitted there were no vital signs and shut down his hemorrhaging weekly. The flood of ads in the first few issues had slowed to a trickle when the Sunday Times reappeared two months later, and Goldsmith never achieved his initial circulation goal of 250,000. After averaging 182,000 during its first year, Now! slid to 119,000 in recent months. It cut its ad rates by about 30%, but even then, says a London advertising executive, "the rates were too high for the circulation offered...