Word: gramm
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...been subverted over the years by the proliferation of lobbyists and the spiraling cost of election campaigns, two trends that go together like a hand and a pocket. The result has often been institutional paralysis. The very fact that Congress and the White House felt compelled to enact the Gramm-Rudman measure, requiring automatic spending cuts, is a monument to the inability of weak-willed legislators to say no to the lobbyists who buzz around them...
City Councilor Saundra Graham said, "We [the city] are not going to bear the burden of all the homelessness in this city." She said that Harvard needs to work with Cambridge in this area and in developing strategies to deal with the Gramm-Rudman budget cuts that threaten both university and city revenues...
...resolve issues here; we only talk about them," Gramm said. She characterized the evening as one of informative conversation and "another good dinner." However, she added, "It's always frustrating when you talk to Harvard...
...national party is burdened by Gramm-Rudman and service cuts. The party looks to Governor Dukakis as a man who knows how to balance the budget and provide services," he said yesterday...
Many legislators and economists maintain that Congress and the Administration will have to boost taxes in order to keep the 1987 deficit to the $144 billion mark that Gramm-Rudman requires. Board Member Feldstein thinks that taxes will eventually have to be raised, but that the Administration will not go along with an increase until after the 1986 congressional elections, "when the magnitude of the problem will be clearer...