Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about a third of its pace in the early 1980s. Interest rates are only half as high as eight years ago. The U.S. economy shrugged off the October 1987 stock-market crash to record a sixth straight year of growth, a feat unprecedented during peacetime. So why, given the fact that pocketbook issues eventually dominate almost every presidential campaign, is George Bush not running away with the election...
...medical care for children and to provide larger earned-income tax credits for the working poor who receive few welfare benefits. When the time comes to increase taxes to balance the budget -- and come it will, however much politicians shrink in horror from the "T" word -- consideration must be given to making the wealthy pay a larger share. Tax rates that range up to 70%, as they did before the Reagan cuts, may be unproductive, but there is nothing sacred about a spread that goes only up to 28% at the top (with a detour to 33% for couples with...
...scheduled four-day mission, the five-man Discovery crew achieved one of its major goals -- sending TDRS toward its designated orbit -- and seemed well on its way toward the other: a successful test flight of the newly refurbished shuttle. Discovery's leap into space seemed at last to have given the nation, as well as NASA, a long-needed catharsis, purging it of the lingering horror of the Challenger disaster, restoring the battered pride of Americans in their technological prowess and providing new impetus to a languishing space program...
...past two games--against the University of Massachusetts and Holy Cross--the Harvard defense has given up 80 points. In the past two games, the Crimson has lost. Badly...
Oakland's first hit wasn't much to brag about. Luis Polonia opened the fourth with a dribbler to the right side of the mound that Clemens fielded cleanly but then threw wide of first baseman Todd Benzinger. Polonia was credited with a single and was given second on Clemens' error...