Word: fractious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Congress was jousting with the oil companies, the Reagan Administration was unusually fractious last week on another corporate coupling. In an article in the New York Times, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige blasted the Justice Department's decision to block the joining of LTV and Republic Steel because it would reduce competition. Baldrige called the ruling "a world-class mistake" because it hinders the steel industry's efforts to become more competitive with foreign producers. A day later, outgoing Attorney General William French Smith issued a statement defending his department and pointedly remarked that antitrust decisions would...
...have a distaste for incumbents--no senator has won a second term there since 1966 Senate Majority leader Howard Baker's decision to step down in Tennessee induced the popular Democrat Rep. Albert Gore Jr. to make a bid for the seat. Gore will probably benefit from a fractious Reublican primary, in which an extreme right-wing religious leader has been viciously attacking his moderate...
...taller still. Even allowing for inflation, the 1985 budget is the largest submitted by the Pentagon since World War II, including the years of the Korean and Viet Nam wars. It had something for everyone, as the Senate and House Armed Services committees found out last week in sometimes fractious briefings. Said one Senate staffer: "In a $305 billion budget, there can't be any real losers...
...President and Congress square off for a fractious session...
...synthesis in figure skating of fairy-tale lyricism and plain physical power has always been problematic. Today, however, the split personality is more fractious than ever. Skaters take sides. "Athletics in men's figure skating has been neglected," says World Champion Scott Hamilton. "Sure, there's some dance in it, but we have to be athletes first. They call it an Olympic sport, not an Olympic art, don't they?" The puckish young man is one of the most accomplished skaters in history, but his view runs counter to that of the Establishment. Since Lake Placid...