Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncertain. Reagan's advisers are scheduled to decide this week which further cuts in entitlement programs to recommend, and Stockman has made no secret of his desire "to take more out of the school lunch program. But any additional reductions will meet resistance in Congress, even from loyal Reaganites. House Republican Leader Robert Michel last week sent a letter to the American School Food Service Association asserting hopefully: "I don't believe any further cuts are contemplated by the Administration or Congress at this time. We recognize that it is a very important program that should be continued...
...Khomeini's command were further decimated last week when Defense Minister Mousa Namju, acting Staff Chief Valiollah Fallahi and two other ranking commanders were killed in the crash of a C-130 returning from the Iranian-Iraqi front. Although a spokesman for a group of former officers loyal to the Shah claimed to have sabotaged the plane, both the government and Mujahedin leaders believed the crash was most likely an accident. Only days earlier, Iran had claimed its "biggest victory" in the year-long border conflict when its forces broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan, a key oil-refining...
...unwillingness of the markets to stampede into a state of panic was also a major failure for self-styled Investment Expert Joseph Granville of Holly Hill, Fla. The stock market hip shooter, whose forecasts have been wrong as often as right, has over the years gained a large and loyal following among investors who subscribe to his weekly market newsletter and hang on his words as if he were the Vicar of Value...
...said that the old generation remembers Stalinism and is loyal to that model of government, although without its excesses. "They are a cautious, sedate, conservative group," he said, adding, "Whether the people who come up after them will be equally conservative is a major question...
...gang comedy" spirit of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ed Weinberger and Stan Daniels, producers of Moore's show, Taxi and The Associates, should know by now that the basic format-a bland central character surrounded by screwballs -works only when the star has a patient and loyal following, as Moore did. Even with the best of casting, the TV audience hardly needs another gang comedy, certainly not a spoof western. Satire, like sacrilege, derives its impact from audience belief in the significance of what is being mocked. Most Americans, to judge from box-office results, are indifferent...