Word: leone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this year's budget-cutting exercise will be twice as difficult as the Administration contends. The CBO says $74 billion in spending cuts and revenue increases will be needed to hit the GRH target, while the Office of Management and Budget puts the number at only $36 billion. Says Leon Panetta, House Budget Committee chairman: "This discrepancy in the figures presents Congress with a terrible political and legislative dilemma. Do we raise taxes and cut programs or all get optimistic together...
...magnificent colleague," said Leon Kirschner, a prominent Harvard music professor who retired last year. "She is an extraordinary teacher and a wonderful companion...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Denise Worrell...
...relations as well. What were long called, and accurately so, the satellites, or captive nations of Eastern Europe, are defecting en masse to the West. They are doing so because Gorbachev is letting them. In the U.S.S.R. the old order is not just passing; it is already on what Leon Trotsky called the trash heap of history. No one, certainly including Gorbachev, knows what is coming next. But whatever it is, it will be something...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Denise Worrell...