Word: inks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Office of Management and Budget, whom he considered both clever and extremely fit for his job. The aide went to the economy room to see how things were going. He was taken aback. He rubbed his eyes and wiped his glasses. Seeing the largest vat of red ink in federal history, he gulped "none of us really understands what's going with these numbers." As he staggered back, he wondered "do you realize the greed coming to the forefront? The hogs are really feeding." Fearing that he would be called stupid or, worse, unfit for his job, he told...
Then on Monday, Nicaraguan officials staged a curious show in Managua. Security Chief Lenin Cerna charged that Pfeifel, Greig and Rodriguez had been trying to assemble "a counterrevolutionary network to carry out attacks on our leaders." A Nicaraguan army lieutenant described how Greig and others, by providing invisible ink and a transmitter camouflaged in an ice chest, had tried to turn him into a traitor...
...only video-game company having troubles. Mattel's electronics division, whose Intellivision was the second bestselling game last year, lost $28.2 million in the three months ending Jan. 29, and expects to lose about the same amount during the next quarter. The company blames the red ink on heavy advertising expenses, price cutting and slower sales...
Reagan's attempt to shift the blame for the deficits to Congress was deeply resented by Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill. "President Reagan is trying to pass the buck on the worst record of Government red ink in American history," charged House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "It is Reagan's recession, the runaway Reagan military budget and the Reagan tax breaks forthe wealthy that are creating the Reagan red ink." House Majority Leader James Wright called Reagan "the biggest alibi artist ever to serve in the White House." Such barbs led Deputy White House Press Secretary Larry...
...campaign, Reagan charged in a television address: "Mr. Carter is acting as if he hadn't been in charge for the past 3½ years; as if someone else ran up nearly $200 billion in red ink; as if someone else was responsible for the largest deficit in American history; and as if someone else was predicting a budget deficit for this fiscal year of $30 billion or more." Those words will no doubt be thrown back at Reagan, with the added fire that his deficit in one year is about as high as Carter...