Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the National Association of Home Builders, Reagan ticked off a series of possible revenue-raising measures that were at various times considered, but never adopted, by the liberal Democrats in Congress. Each one, including a hike of 10% in the capital gains tax on home sales and a limit on mortgage interest deductions, brought shouts of "No, no, no!" from his audience. He agreed with his critics that federal budget deficits "do matter," but turned the issue around, claiming that "deficit spending represents one of the most alarming dangers to our republic and to the prosperity of our people...
...Democrat-dominated House last March passed a resolution that would limit the increase in military spending to 4%, create added revenue of $30 billion (presumably by canceling Reagan's third-year tax cut), spend an added $33 billion on nondefense domestic programs, and produce a 1984 deficit of $174.45 billion. The budget Reagan had submitted in January would have carried a $188.8 billion shortfall, according to Administration estimates. The Reagan projections included a deficit of $194.2 billion in 1985, while the House plan estimated its 1985 deficit at $146.7 billion...
Married last year to Divorce Attorney Robert Piro, 49, Marshall fears that "the mentality of the 1980s will be to try to limit the number of successful women." Says she: "The men are starting to worry about being run over by hordes of ambitious young women, and the woman who tells me she is not afraid of discrimination is too stupid for me to hire...
...OECD communique glossed over a spate of specific conflicts among nations. Though the delegates renounced protectionism, their governments have been quicker to build trade barriers than to tear them down. The U.S. slapped a heavy tariff on Japanese motorcycles last month, and Western Europe pressured the Japanese to limit exports of light trucks, machine tools and television tubes. American officials have made no progress in persuading the European nations to reduce the subsidies that help boost their agricultural exports...
Although the Soviets have sought to limit American INF deployments in Europe, they have never proposed reductions of British and French INF: 263 delivery vehicles consisting of 64 British missiles, 55 British bombers, 98 French missiles and 46 French bombers. Instead, the Soviets have publicly insisted since November. 1981 that the USSR be permitted to exclude from any Soviet-American INF agreement a Soviet INF arsenal equal to the combined total of British and French nuclear delivery vehicles...