Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget. Then beginning with the fiscal-1987 budget that Reagan must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until 1991, when the lion will lie down with the lamb and the deficit will total zero. The new law even dictates that half of the current cuts are to come from military spending (to be trimmed 4.9%) and half from nonmilitary outlays (4.3%). But not from us, the oysters began protesting...
...will be forced to do that. As the day for that decision approached, friends of the Philippines in the U.S. could only watch and wait and renew their vows not to abandon their support for the democratic aspirations of a longtime friend and ally, regardless of what turbulence might lie ahead...
...charges by opposition politicians that as much as $10 billion has fled the debt-ridden Philippines in recent years. Since then the U.S. has launched several investigations of allegations that the Marcos regime may have misappropriated U.S. aid to the Philippines. Marcos dismisses all this as a "malicious lie...
...military facilities in the Philippines lie at the epicenter of both the western Pacific and the presidential campaign. To the Pentagon, their eventual fate is of critical importance. As Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage said last week, "Their location astride the vital Pacific sea-lanes, plus their unmatched facilities, makes them an unsurpassable combination...
Nearly everyone involved in the Leverett House grate incident would agree with Ms. Martin's underlying theme that the general problems of homelessness and student security are the central issues of the controversy. My differences lie with the inconsistency of Ms. Martin's arguments and the manner in which she portrays the problem as a "no-win situation", adding that "something must be sacrificed, either the vents for the homeless or the [question of] students' security." This attitude creates an "us vs. them" scenario that leads to nothing more than callous treatment of the homeless...