Word: joining
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Democrats know, however, that Reagan has them on the defensive and are ready to join the game, even to turn it deftly against the President. House Speaker Tip O'Neill tipped off the strategy by declaring last week, "Any day the President wants to send up a balanced budget, I guarantee I will get it on the floor within 48 hours." Democratic Congressman James Jones of Oklahoma, chairman of the House Budget Committee, introduced a bill that would require the President to submit a balanced budget by Oct. 1 of each year, the start of the Government...
...Herzog's urging. Said the President: "People from all strata of the public are appealing to me to initiate a national unity government." After both leaders had conferred separately with the President at his official presidential residence in Jerusalem, Shamir and Peres spoke positively about the need to join forces. Peres said he felt that "the entire nation wants a national unity government established, and it is our judgment to respond to the will of the people." Shamir said he recognized the "special need" for such a move. However, many political observers suspected that the two men were merely...
There is, after slogging through Rothenberg's exhaustive survey of the neoliberal agenda, almost nothing that emerges as characteristic, except perhaps a cautious pragmatism. Anyone who professes the slightest skepticism for traditional' Democratic interest group politics can join the club. Content to spout generalities about, basically, the current generation of new Democratic leaders, Rothenberg fails to articulate a set of first principles for this newism. And so he fails to support one of the principal tenets of his book--that we are dealing with a new American political ideology...
...example, per capita income in the U.S. grew from $7,000 to $11,500 (expressed in constant 1980 dollars), while in India it increased from $170 to $260, nearly doubling the disparity between the two countries. By the year 2000, some 630 million young adults will join the Third World's labor force, while industrialized countries will add only 20 million young workers. As a result, Third World wages will probably remain at their low levels. That may encourage the flow of manufacturing jobs from industrialized countries to developing nations, but it could also provoke protectionist threats to the international...
...suspend petty political quarrels, petty nitpicking and faultfinding and join hands to save the nation," declared Marcos. He offered a ten-point program for economic recovery that includes new curbs on public spending and closer cooperation between the government and the private sector...