Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific issue, loans to debt-burdened farmers, was never resolved, only postponed until this week. The early outbreak of political hardball darkened prospects that Congress and the Administration can later cope successfully with the big domestic tasks of this year: enacting a budget that will significantly reduce swollen deficits, and pushing through sweeping tax reform. Both efforts will require the kind of bipartisan cooperation within Congress and with the White House that was sadly lacking in the farm-credit fight. Choosing a military metaphor, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici said of the farm-loan battle: "This is just...
...noisy barrage. As soon as Congress reconvened after its Lincoln's Birthday recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they can get their spring planting done. The most important business delayed was confirmation of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real...
...would consist of a "headline splash" one time, and one time only. Furthermore, the absurd selectivity shown by divestiture advocates is truly appalling. If Harvard were to divest of all stock in companies which profit from profound "evil." It might be reduced to holding only domestically-chartered savings and loan stock. Everything from stock in companies which deal with the Soviet Union. Chile, EI Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear and other response, to U.S. Government securities issued in the last five years (which largely financed the military buildup), would have to go. This isolationism ad absurdam...
...Secretary of Education, William J. Bennett, held his first news conference. It came at a crucial point, one week after the Administration announced its new budget proposal, which included serious cutbacks in financial aid. Reagan had called for a cap of $4000 per student on all federal grant and loan aid, the establishment of an income ceiling of $32,500 for guaranteed student loan eligibility, and other extreme fiscal measures. The plan would mean cutting an estimated I million students currently on some form of assistance from the rolls altogether...
...apartheid; and (in the near future) to discontinue producing hardware or supplying any capital whatsoever which might directly aid the South African government itself. The University indicated its intention to forward this last reform when it divested of $51 million in Citibank in 1979 after Citibank continued to make loans to the South African regime. Along these lines, Bok stated in his open letter of last week, the University will begin to persuade companies in Harvard's portfolio to phase out any operations which directly, by sale or loan, buffet any agency which enforces apartheid in South Africa...