Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sums they had deducted under current depreciation rules. It was added just days before the package was announced largely because an extra $20 billion was needed to make the plan revenue neutral in 1988. Finally, during the six months between the Treasury's trial balloon last November and the formal presentation to Congress last week, the Administration listened to dozens of lobbyists contending, in the sardonic words of Treasury Secretary James Baker, that "if we go forward with a particular provision or another, it is the end of the Western world as we know it." In the political interest...
...week, President Reagan and his guest, King Hussein of Jordan, stepped out into the Rose Garden for an impromptu press conference. The President wished Hussein well in his search for a Middle East peace settlement. The King responded with words that amounted more to a policy statement than a formal farewell. As the result of his recent talks with Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein declared, "we are willing to negotiate, within the context of an international conference, a peaceful settlement on the basis of the pertinent United Nations resolutions, including 242 and 338." He added...
...Harvard Foundation for Race Relations--established four years ago in lieu of the Third World Student Center long requested by minority students--underwent its first formal evaluation...
...proposals outlined in their new book, "Hawks, Doves, and Owls," Allison, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye, and K-School academic dean Albert Carnesale the three explained their "new agenda" to a packed K-School audience yesterday. Next week they will present their plan to a formal hearing of the House Armed Services Committee...
...formal tone hardly ended at dining hall exits hat," "We never went to class without wearing a felt hat," Downes says. "That seems funny to me now What everyone wore--gabardine jackets, grey flannel trousers, and brown-and-white saddle shoes--was almost a costume...