Word: gan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the budget gap is indeed being left unattended. Though Rea gan in his State of the Union address called for a budget-reduction "down payment" of $100 billion over three years, negotiators from the White House and Congress have had only three halfhearted and inconclusive meetings on where to begin. Last week the President and the Democrats were pointing fingers at each other over who was really to blame for the huge deficits. Said Reagan in a press conference: "I am a little struck by these born-again budget balancers, who for 40 out of the last 44 years...
...squabbling among his advisers reinforced the President's deep distrust of economists. In a January radio address, he described economic forecasting as "far from a perfect science" and called economists "naysayers" and "doom criers." Though Rea gan was never a doctrinaire supply-sider who believed that deficits were nothing to get too concerned about, the President apparently refuses to believe that the budget gap will be as big and as harmful as Feldstein thinks...
...with a bodyguard. But, arguing that such protection was not appropriate, Kerr dispensed with it. One morning last week the two gunmen entered the administration building unchallenged, made their way to the third floor and waited. At 9: 10 a.m., as Kerr stepped out of the elevator and be gan to walk toward his office, one of the terrorists shot him twice in the head with a gun fitted with a silencer. The gunmen escaped, and at a nearby hospital, Kerr was pronounced dead...
...damage was first detected around 1970, but scientists suspect that the destruction be gan two decades earlier. One clue: cross sections of tree trunks show that their growth rings, widely separated for more than a century, began narrowing in the 1950s and '60s, a sign of impaired growth. Researchers initially blamed severe climatic conditions, like the near drought of 1976. Today suspicion focuses on environmental pollution, particularly the acid rain caused by auto and industrial emissions...
Government does not involve only military affairs, to be sure. Every aspect of economic policy attracts similar expressions of right thinking. When Reagan was convinced that taxes had to be increased, after he had promised to cut them, he be gan referring not to taxes but to "revenue enhancements," a term apparently invented by Lawrence Kudlow, formerly of the Office of Management and Budget. The tendency seems to be spreading. A spokes man for Budget Director David Stockman won special recognition for declaring that the Administration was not considering a means test for Medicare but a "layering of bene fits...