Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think the time has come for the United States to make a new effort to contact the Iranians and the Hizballah...
Prospects for reversing that outlook in the Senate are dim. Finance Committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen will try to stop the capital-gains cut by offering as an alternative broader IRAs, without any tax increase to make up the revenue loss. Failing that, some Democrats favor strategy to combine the capital-gains cut in a monster tax-and-spending bill with so many provisions unacceptable to Bush that he will be forced to veto it. That risks triggering the automatic spending cuts mandated by Gramm-Rudman-Hollings if there is no agreement by Oct. 16 to hold the deficit...
Bush won some respect for attaching his prestige to the knotty education issue, but many Governors are still waiting to see whether the President will make the tough choices necessary to establish education as a genuine priority. Some wonder, for example, why he retains the so far ineffectual Lauro Cavazos as Education Secretary. They also wonder why a self-proclaimed education President would propose, in effect, to cut federal education spending $400 million, adjusted for inflation...
...environment," from protecting endangered species to combatting pollution. The idea is to give conservationists the kind of recognition and prestige afforded to Nobel laureates. Says Richard Goldman, president of the foundation and a longtime environmental crusader: "We're trying to find people who can inspire others, people who make a difference." + The first Goldman prizes will be announced in April...
...like open or cooperative adoption not only appeal to birth mothers grappling with their decision but may also lift the burdens of mystery and shame endured by the adopted child. Many developments are market driven, as agencies, lawyers, "consultants" and counselors compete to open fresh avenues to adoption or make the old ones less forbidding...