Word: line
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...remold the image, Quayle would have to be seen, first as an effective inside player and outside spokesman. With encouragement from Bush and White House chief of staff John Sununu, Quayle became a voluble participant in strategy sessions. He lined up with Sununu and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for instance, to support a relatively high budget for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Then it was Quayle who laid out in a major speech the Administration's line...
...billion over the next ten years, will allow the Government to close down or sell off more than 500 insolvent savings institutions. To reform the rest of the thrift industry, the bill tightens capital requirements so that S & L owners would have more of their own money on the line. Specifically, the bill calls for all thrifts immediately to post $1.50 in reserves for each $100 in deposits and reach a level of $3 in reserves...
...Israel's hard-line leaders are reluctant to criticize the behavior of their fellow nationalists across the "green line." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir concedes that "no one is entitled to take the law into his own hands" but reserves his sympathy for the settlers' plight. Foreign Minister Moshe Arens praises West Bank Jews as the "frontline obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state." Still, the government hopes to cool off the settlers with a series of tough new measures against Arab demonstrators. Last week Chief of Staff Dan Shomron requested an amendment that would allow him to deport Palestinians...
Most winemakers favor AVAs in theory. Top-of-the-line varietals (wines named for the specific grapes used to make them) reap the industry's biggest profits these days. But Napa vineyards can cost $50,000 an acre, and prime grapes go for as much as $1,800 a ton in good years; accordingly, vintners argue that labeling a bottle as the product of a prestigious AVA like Napa Valley or Sonoma County makes the wine more appealing to buyers. Vintners whose acreage lies within the suggested borders of the four new Napa appellations (Rutherford, Rutherford Bench, Oakville and Oakville...
...those meetings and called environmentalists and industrialists into the White House to present their cases directly to him. Finally, White House chief of staff John Sununu took three 30-page single-spaced option papers to Camp David on Saturday, June 10. He and the President went over them line by line on Sunday, making the final decisions...