Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush warning that drug czar William Bennett's efforts are being undermined at the Cabinet and sub-Cabinet levels by "political jockeying, backstabbing and malaise." Von Raab has warm words for Bush but scorns the President's cautious, pragmatic advisers, including Brady, Secretary of State James Baker and Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. Except for drug czar Bennett and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, he says, the Bush team is afraid of taking risks and making waves...
...Pentagon budget is tight, the years that follow promise even more bad news for hard-pressed defense firms. The General Accounting Office estimates that as much as $150 billion will have to be hacked out of defense plans over the next five years. One reason: giant, multi-year spending commitments in the early 1980s are still rolling through the budgets like a giant bow wave, pushing aside other priorities. One of the biggest is the Northrop B-2, which is now expected to cost $530 million per plane, making it the most expensive weapons system in history. Eliminating the plane...
Hughes Aircraft, the General Motors subsidiary that makes aircraft radar systems and missiles for the F-15 jet, has announced plans to lay off 6,000 of its 75,000 employees in Southern California. No new planes are being built at the Lockheed aircraft plant just north of Atlanta, which once produced such military mainstays as the C-130 and C-5 transports. Reduced to performing subcontracting jobs for Boeing and Northrop, the plant has chopped its 20,000- worker payroll in half...
Although as a general rule I am thoroughly annoyed by requirements, I believe that Harvard must find a way to expose students to more of what is different. Only in this way will students learn that the "Great Books" have modern counterparts and the great thinkers can be nearly eclipsed--certainly equaled--by some of the modern great actors...
Under the plan, top statewide elected officials, including governor, attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer would be limited to two four-year terms. The House Speaker and Senate President would also be limited to two two-year terms in their top legislative posts...