Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we'll maybe stretch out ((payment for programs over several years)), but I'm not going to give up on them. I have to set priorities, though. I'd like to start moving forward on the main ones, even if it's not going to be the total funding that I'd like to bring about...
...personable Boskin was one of the main architects of Bush's flexible- freeze plan for cutting the budget deficit without raising taxes. To make ^ the freeze work, the Bush team would have to limit increases on most domestic spending to the inflation rate and at the same time boost economic growth and reduce interest rates. Many economists think that combination would be quite tricky to arrange. Says Lawrence Summers, a Harvard professor and former adviser to Michael Dukakis: "I would not want to skate on a flexibly frozen lake...
Talk about empty gestures. Along with representatives from 34 other countries, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes arrived in Vienna last week to attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally...
Probably the most vocal calls for harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them...
...have more confidence in Bush or in Congress to deal with the country's main problems...