Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...required financial-disclosure forms a vacation trip to France paid for in part by a close friend. Though Dinkins provided plausible explanations for the lapses, the explanations were slow in coming. With more time, Giuliani might have been able to capitalize on his reputation as one of the nation's toughest lawmen. When the candidates squared off in televised debates, Dinkins complained that Giuliani was behaving more like a prosecutor than a mayor. Giuliani fired back, "I think the people of this town want a mayor who has nothing to fear from a prosecutor...
There is no more fitting place than Montgomery, Ala., site of the epic 1955-56 black boycott to desegregate the bus system, to memorialize the nation's decades-long struggle for civil rights. Last week 5,000 black and white Americans gathered there to dedicate a black granite sculpture engraved with the names of 40 particularly unforgettable men, women and children -- an honor roll representing the untold numbers of people who have died in violent racial confrontations...
...health of the world's largest economy and the strength of its armed forces to the fate of a college student's grant. All that and more were put at risk last week, when the capital's political gamblers -- the President and the Democratic leaders of Congress -- allowed the nation to bump up against the threat of bankruptcy...
...considered attaching it to the debt-ceiling legislation. Majority Leader George Mitchell, increasingly playing the role of an unyielding Horatius at the Bridge, blocked them. Democrats similarly toyed with piggybacking onto the debt bill measures that Bush would veto if passed separately. Both sides backed off only when the nation was on the brink of insolvency...
...games over. In a feisty mood, Bush urged reporters last week to go after Congress for thwarting his and the nation's will. He vowed to leave in place automatic spending cuts that will trim $16.1 billion from the $1.2 trillion 1990 budget unless Congress on its own cuts about $14 billion from the deficit without resorting to "gimmicks." Unmentioned was the fact that most of the existing gimmicks were first proposed by the Administration...