Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thick underbrush near the Hungarian border. Finally, after a group of Rumanian border soldiers marched by, the couple dashed across the so-called Green Line, children clinging to their backs. Once they were on Hungarian soil, the refugees were driven 30 miles by local police to Debrecen and given food, clothing and beds in a government-funded shelter. The police issued the family temporary residence permits, while other officials began organizing jobs and permanent housing. Said Karoly: "After so much fear, we feel as if we have a future again...
...uses, even if the cities continue to splash water at the current rate. Says Thomas Graff, senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund: "The West has plenty of water to meet the future of its cities and industries as well as for environmental values, but its farmers must be given incentives to use less water...
...between us," said the Vice President. "Tax cuts vs. tax hikes. I will not raise your taxes, period." Dukakis, who boasts that he has balanced "nine budgets in a row," shot back by pointing to the Reagan record: "This Administration has raised taxes four times in six years ((and)) given us more red ink than all the Administrations from George Washington to Jimmy Carter combined...
...Given the hard-liners' fierce reaction, it was not surprising that as of last week the ever cautious Arafat had not made any public comment on what Abu Sharif himself called a "policy breakthrough." But U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, touring the region last week, was encouraged by the statement's lack of "strident rhetoric" and called it a "contribution to rational discussion" of the Arab-Israeli dispute...
Ostensibly, legislators take money from lobbyists to help with their campaigns. Yet most House incumbents are re-elected easily; many run unopposed. Unlike the bride who returns wedding gifts when the marriage is called off, members of Congress keep what they are given, even when there is no real race. Upon retirement, a member elected before 1980 can keep this pot of money for his personal use -- a kind of IRA with no strings attached. So far, New York Democrat Stephen Solarz has piled up more than $800,000, as has Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski; New Jersey Republican Matthew Rinaldo...