Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other leaders decried China's woes. Charging that bribery, tax evasion, embezzlement and other crimes "have reached very serious proportions," Finance Minister Wang Bingqian demanded that the "malpractices" come to a halt. Dressed in a gray Mao suit, Wang chided officials for using public funds for "lavish dinner parties and gifts" and for "blindly pursuing the modernization of office facilities." Thanks in part to such extravagances, Wang said, the government ran a $1.9 billion budget deficit in 1986 and can expect $2.2 billion in red ink this year. Planning Commission Minister Song Ping took up the theme: "Financial and economic...
...even if the forces insisting on SDI deployment nevertheless were to prevail, the U.S.S.R. would not be left in a hopeless position. It could bring to a halt any reduction of its strategic forces and begin accelerated construction of mobile strategic missiles and cruise missiles, which would thus replace vulnerable silo-based missiles. As I have noted, such substitution is desirable for other reasons...
...court-appointed special prosecutor is a violation of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers. A day later, attorneys for former Reagan Aide Michael Deaver, under investigation for his lobbying activities after his departure from the White House in May 1985, used an almost identical ploy to halt indictments being sought against him by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. The challenges are more than just delaying tactics; in the words of one Justice Department attorney, they could mark the "death knell for the special-prosecutor statute...
This prevented future searches for Marian in my room, although it did little to halt the telephone and blood pressure fiascos. I didn't need the blood pressure tests so often (my doctor later agreed), I didn't need a telephone for "Herman" (the doc also concurred on this one), and I certainly didn't know who Marian was (neither...
...flat, wet rock and falls hard on her back. "I'm O.K.! I'm O.K.!" she shouts through her mask, and she gets back up. Suddenly an old Subaru cuts down into the ravine, and Ifan Evans, 47, who is driving, brings the car to a sharp halt just a few feet from the creek. Four people all seem to exit the car at the same time, and there is much hugging and kissing. But there is little time to waste...