Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that "if blacks take over coaching like everybody wants them to, there is not going to be anything left for the white people." Seldom does a public figure so plainly state what many whites seem to feel when blacks break into previously all-white enclaves: more for them is less...
Nixon isn't ducking. Less reluctant support for Dole comes from a former occupant of the Oval Office. Richard Nixon, who favors Dole, has been quietly passing along advice and encouragement, mainly through intermediaries...
...Reagan seemed determined to end his presidency with a flourish. "As they say in show biz," he urged his aides and appointees, "let's bring them to their feet with our closing act." But the State of the Union address that the President prepared to deliver this week was less a stirring aria than a medley of his greatest hits. It includes a ringing anthem to the Reagan revolution: the tax cuts -- including a call for new reduction in the rate on capital gains -- the five-year economic boom, the resurgence of patriotism. Then the President also planned...
...measures, such as agricultural support programs ($26 billion), are politically sacrosanct. And while some Democrats might be ready to chop away at the $298 billion in defense spending, substantial Pentagon cuts would be unlikely under any Republican Administration. Thus, spending that is truly discretionary (read politically negotiable) amounts to less than 15% of the $1 trillion federal budget. Even if the President could manage to veto $150 billion of spending from those areas, the savings would barely equal the interest on the national debt...
...Player Jaroslav Pouzar, 36, helped Canada's Edmonton Oilers win three Stanley Cup championships. Though most East bloc talents are more modestly gifted, Western clients are usually delighted with them. Says a Viennese cabaret manager who hires Polish dancers: "They are better trained than Westerners, work longer and cost less." A four-man Prague dance band called Bob's Combo belts out tunes in English, German and even Japanese aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise liner Sun Viking. The Polish five-woman ensemble Sabat was performing aboard the Achille Lauro when the Italian cruise ship was hijacked by terrorists...