Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign season haunted by the specter of billion-dollar deficits, many presidential candidates are being forced to respond to questions about how they would balance the federal budget. Since announcing a plan to raise taxes would be a political kiss of death, the candidates are looking for less painful alternatives...
...know even less about why wars never happen at all. For the last 40 years we have lived in a bipolar international system with hegemonic powers competing for territory, goods and prestige. Judging by many theories about great powers and international conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union should have gone to war by now. They have had many opportunities--the closest being the Cuban Missile Crisis--where the two countries could have initiated a general war, but didn...
...most part, the dead time was only mildly irritating. The game itself was marked by less than inspired play, so a few extra minutes here and there made little difference. But in the final minutes of the game, the TV breaks seriously interrupted the game's momentum...
...Democrats, the Arias plan came just in time. It is the new anchor for the anti-contra case, a case that is running out of the usual arguments. It was variously said that the contras could not win, had no support and even less legitimacy. Yet after one year of full U.S. funding, they have had considerable success in the field. The Sandinistas find themselves stretched and on the defensive. Most ominously, the internal opposition is talking to the contras about what the Sandinistas fear will be a "united front" of the kind they used to topple Somoza. That...
...ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. Turow, who turned down a proffered $275,000 advance elsewhere to take $200,000 at FS&G, says the house's cachet "made it an honor to take less money." Doing business the old-fashioned way has long-term rewards as well. "Sometimes a writer ahead of his time has to be nursed along," says Giroux. "Remember, Moby Dick was a flop in the 19th century -- too much whale...