Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A historic touchdown ends Challenger's bittersweet journey
That would be dwarfed by another huge increase in the Pentagon budget: Reagan is requesting a 13% (after inflation) rise in spending authorization, to $305 billion (see following story). "To those who say we must raise taxes, I say wait," the President declared. He did couple his less-than-clarion...
The common name for this kind of support for government contracts is "pork barrel." Congressmen routinely try to direct lucrative government business toward home state corporations. If they succeed, as many senior committee members do, they create jobs for constituents and prime a future pump of campaign funds. Common examples...
Reuben Ben-Dori claims Israel has a historic quest, he seems part of an older generation of romantic settlers. He proudly boasts of having brought the first tractor to the Holy Land. Young citizens though even on an traditionally idealistic kibbutz, are not prone to Biblical visions of a "greater...
"It's an historic building, but we can't afford to fix it," says Gail M. Aidinoff '84, co-producer adding, "This is the first time an effort's being made."