Word: motor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...More than 12 blocks of streets along Mass. Ave. were roped off by police and fire personnel Friday night and throughout the entire day Saturday. Pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic in the area was completely halted...
...Congress of the People's Deputies began a hastily convened session by impeaching Yeltsin, but demoralized lawmakers were soon squabbling among themselves about whether to get rid of parliamentary chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov too. Yeltsin's government began to show signs of impatience with the siege, blocking access to the motor pool, keeping out fresh food supplies and, finally, turning off the electricity. As the crowds outside dwindled to several hundred diehards, groups of Deputies gathered by candlelight to plot their next move. But the standoff seemed all but over by week...
...that should pave the way for stronger growth by 1995. Weary Americans might be forgiven, however, for thinking the promised land is still a long way off. "Lower interest rates won't do it alone for us or for our dealers," says Allan Gilmour, vice chairman of Ford Motor Co. "Their steam has just about run out. The economy's biggest problem is that it needs an igniter to get the whole thing going." President Clinton tried that with his deficit-spending proposal to boost the economy earlier this year, but his attempt stirred little public enthusiasm and was defeated...
...President's budget plan cleared another hurdle when Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee struck a deal on new tax increases and spending cuts. They eliminated Clinton's $72 billion tax on all forms of energy, substituting a 4.3 cents-per-gal. motor-fuels tax that will raise just $24 billion over the next five years and tacked on a 2.8% increase in the capital-gains tax for the affluent. With the First Lady's very discreet acquiescence, the Senators also cut an extra $19 billion from Medicare beyond the $49 billion already sought by Clinton. Now the bill moves...
...left field -- columnists for the Nation, for instance, or resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter" and family-leave bills, some vague reformist intentions here and there -- followed by an inexorable stagger to the right. Even after all the bean counting, for example, and despite the near appointment of Lani Guinier, Clinton is surrounded with moderate white fellows like Bentsen, Rubin, Panetta and Christopher...