Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of truisms have been established about George Bush since the election. One is that you've been liberated, that you're no longer the shackled George Bush of the vice presidency who was unable to speak his mind. Is that correct...
Boskin's most controversial policy preference is reflected in his call for changes in programs that in some cases amount to handouts for the well-off, including Social Security and agricultural subsidies. In his 1987 book, Reagan and the Economy, Boskin wrote, "Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded." But he realizes that middle-class entitlement programs are political nitroglycerin, and he has no intention of embarrassing Bush by launching a public crusade...
...Soviets have a vested interest in making good on the antique IOUs. In recent times, U.S. banks have loaned money to the Soviets only for short periods. But the Soviets hope that a repayment of the old debt may encourage some U.S. banks to extend longer-term loans, as European and Japanese financial institutions have done over the past five years to the tune of $11 billion...
...slide, he reversed it. His high approval rating -- 64% last week, 5 points above Dwight Eisenhower's in December 1960 -- is only one crude measure of that change. Most Americans are more sanguine about their lot and their leaders than they were in 1980. Government paralysis is no longer the norm...
...longer true, alas, that the wood-stove bore can warm himself twice, once by bragging about the money he is saving and again by preening at the perfection of his environmental posture. Heating oil, for the moment, costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...