Word: needing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reform Act closed loopholes for the rich created by the 1981 Reagan tax cut and took millions of Americans living in poverty off the taxpaying rolls. The welfare reform legislation would provide direction to a system that liberals and conservatives alike agree is in dire need of repair. If that's mere politicking...
...that my pals Roger Ailes and Jimmy Baker have helped me defeat that icky Michael Dukakis and his liberal, out-of-the-mainstream ideas, I need to start making some tough choices about what kind of people I want to bring with me to Washington to form my new administration. Obviously, I need to do a much better job than I did in New Orleans when I picked Danforth Quayle to be my co-pilot...
...beatniks-for divestment, has shown me you could be just the man for the job of congressional liasion. If you could be as successful using sleazy, dishonest, strong-arm tactics with the House of Representative as you have been with the divestment movement on your campus, we wouldn't need to waste so much time on illegal, covert activities like the Iran-Contra deal. Golly, if you could convince Congress that taking a vote on important issues was harmful to the democratic process (like you did to your overseers last spring) I'd make you chief of staff...
...Some people vote less because they're less pleased with the choice offered," Verba added. "It is ironic that those who need government most are least likely to participate...
Meyer, however, said he did not have personal gain at stake because, though he is a realtor, he does not handle rentals. He said the only beneficiaries of the proposition are those with legitimate need for housing...