Word: minimum
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Before Reagan came along it appeared that both parties were committed to a certain minimum level of federal spending and involvement. But Reagan wanted to change all that. He insisted that government was the problem, not the solution. And most significantly, he promised to cut back on spending and to balance the budget...
...know, Reagan did not succeed in balancing the budget, but he did try his best to hold social spending to a minimum. In fact, Reagan went so far with his budget cutting that his attempts have backfired on him and his conservative colleagues. Even though conservatives now have a louder voice in the Republican Party, the party's overt reaction has been to move closer to the center this year than it ever would have dreamed...
Kevin Collison, a spokesman for Omaha MayorWalter Calinger, said officials had raised only$540,000 toward the minimum cost of $750,000expected for the debate...
...tide of history," Ronald Reagan told a conference of conservatives in 1986, "is all but irreversibly turned our way." Last week the historic 100th Congress was busy debating federal funding for child care, job leave for parents, increases in the minimum wage and final touches on a welfare-reform act. The President himself signed into law a congressionally initiated expansion of the food-stamp program, the most sweeping in a decade. The actions simply underscored what the Democratic Congress has been proving throughout the final two years of Ronald Reagan's second term: tides that flow also...
...they rush to adjournment, the two houses are "within a thin dime" of an agreement on controversial welfare-reform legislation, according to its chief Senate sponsor, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. An increase in the minimum wage is also likely. After last December's so-called summit with the White House on reducing the federal deficit by $76 billion, both houses have passed all 13 appropriations bills, although differences in six remain to be reconciled...