Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate was holding out for $301 billion. The compromise would give the Pentagon $296 billion, but only if the President agreed to hike taxes to help pay for the cost. If Reagan rejected the tax increase, the Pentagon would get just $289 billion. The Democratic resolution attempts to lock Reagan into a damned-if- he-does, damned-if-he-doesn't position, placing the burden of new taxes on his shoulders. It is a game the President insists he will not play...
...economic concerns earned the U.S. large amounts of economic goodwill. Even bankers like former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, who tangled with Volcker on many issues, admired the Fed chief's willingness to do the dirty work of wringing inflation out of the system. Says Wriston: "It took guts to lock the wheels of the world, and I do not know of any other way it could have been done...
...increase in the prison population over the next decade would be intolerable. But the actual increase could be vastly greater. If just one piece of legislation like last year's drug bill, which calls for stiffer sentencing, is factored in, the increase will be much larger. We simply cannot lock everybody up. Something has got to give. Congress must choose: either allocate many billions of dollars for new prisons, or use imprisonment only where necessary and make greater use of such alternatives as fines, restitution, supervised home confinement, community service and probation, particularly for nonviolent and first offenders...
...secretary, Fawn Hall. Charges of a possible obstruction of justice could hinge in part on how she describes the documents she shredded, altered or spirited off to North after Attorney General Edwin Meese carelessly interviewed him about the Iran-contra diversion but failed to call in the FBI or lock up North's files...
Midway through the first half, Gibbs rambled 15 yards for a try after receiving a pass from forward lock Sam Rosenstein. Koenig converted the try for a 6-0 Crimson lead...