Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years past, a concession students won through their protests in 1978. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility meets at 7:30 p.m. to consider the case-by-case proposal: if the ACSR lends its support to that recommendation, the Corporation is virtually certain to approve it permanently. Only the loudest of objections by the ACSR has a chance to influence the Corporation and only the loudest of protests by students, in turn, seems likely to move the ACSR...
...loudest howls, from conservative Democrats as well as from Republicans of all ideological stripes, were directed at the startling deficits Reagan is proposing. For fiscal 1983, the President predicted a $91.5 billion shortfall, shrinking only to $82.9 billion in 1984. Worse yet, the Congressional Budget Office disputed those figures, pegging the 1983 deficit at a staggering $157 billion and predicting a climb to $188 billion in 1984 and a whopping $208 billion in 1985. "There's a lot of panic among the Republicans," said New York G.O.P. Congressman Barber Conable. "They are splattering all over the ceiling...
...crisis, he would seek from Congress a "broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." This was the passage that, somewhat ominously, drew the loudest applause...
Farmers are among the loudest skeptics. They fear that Reagan will go further and impose a new embargo on grain shipments, which would swell the U.S. agricultural surplus and depress farm prices and incomes. Their concern stems from their bitter experience with the embargo that President Carter declared two years ago after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Says Jared Hoover, who farms 1,400 acres outside Abilene, Kans.: "I can understand suspending talks on a new agreement with Moscow. But we should have enough history under our belts to teach us a lesson. Despite Carter's embargo, the Russians...
Both sides had very vocal supporters, with the Crimson cheering section the largest and loudest of the season...