Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy's claim that Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig deliberately ignited the explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship U.S.S. Iowa last April | has failed to convince many critics. New doubts have been raised now that an insurance company has paid off on the double-indemnity policy Hartwig took out 17 months before the explosion. The beneficiary: Hartwig's former shipmate, Kendall Truitt, who will get $101,000 (and who has agreed to give part of the money to Hartwig's family...
...Washington version of budget brinkmanship, the stakes range from the health of the world's largest economy and the strength of its armed forces to the fate of a college student's grant. All that and more were put at risk last week, when the capital's political gamblers -- the President and the Democratic leaders of Congress -- allowed the nation to bump up against the threat of bankruptcy...
...games over. In a feisty mood, Bush urged reporters last week to go after Congress for thwarting his and the nation's will. He vowed to leave in place automatic spending cuts that will trim $16.1 billion from the $1.2 trillion 1990 budget unless Congress on its own cuts about $14 billion from the deficit without resorting to "gimmicks." Unmentioned was the fact that most of the existing gimmicks were first proposed by the Administration...
...emphasis of racial issues, argue that their putative lead was always exaggerated. "In none of our polling did we expect to have Doug much over 51%," says Wilder pollster Mike Donilon. In other words, if the election was always destined to be a cliffhanger, there was no dramatic last-minute drop-off of Wilder's white support...
...delaying a client's case, the normally combative Wilder turned the other cheek. As Paul Goldman, Wilder's longtime backstage strategist, explains, "One of the things we learned in 1985 is that if you don't think about race, it doesn't matter." Wilder won with what, compared with last week's results, seems almost a landslide margin: nearly 52% of the vote...