Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President shall not sign any bill" that would push actual spending above the estimated totals. As a further prod to keep spending down, taxes could not increase as a proportion of national income unless Congress specifically voted to let this happen (on the other hand, a deficit could legally occur if tax collections fell below expectations). There are two other loopholes: 1) Congress could waive the balanced-budget requirement by a simple majority in any year during which the nation was fighting a declared war; 2) Congress could vote deficit spending in years of peace by a three-fifths majority...
...Department, the Treasury and the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Meanwhile, policy-making has become a desperate waiting game, with virtually all options for actions ruled out by the principles of Reaganomics, leaving the top advisers little choice but to hope that a brisk recovery will somehow occur. Says Jerry Jordan, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, who resigned early this month, citing family reasons: "You have got to remember that the President himself has set economic policy, and he is so incredibly consistent that it really does not matter who the subalterns or lieutenants...
...family assassinations, two ordinary deaths, a single accident which kills one, blinds another and castrates a third. In addition, there are a number of near car accidents and several mentions of death, fear of dying and "the arc of a life." In the real world, both tragedy and joy occur in smaller doses than in Garp's universe. The film, like Irving's novel, occasionally seems somewhat fantastical and distant as a result. But every time a romance or a killing becomes too outlandish. Garp beams, or bellows, or frets, and his fear once again reminds...
Humphrey, a leading opponent of the freeze, said he agrees with President Reagan that the U.S. currently trails the Soviet Union in overall defense strength and that significant reductions should not occur unless the U.S. negotiates from a position of party...
...shows Author Benchley riding on the back of a manta ray. If he can do it, so, presumably, can Paloma. Such authentication is really unnecessary. The Girl of the Sea of Cortez is an underwater morality play with a happy ending. Fabulous events do not seem unbelievable when they occur in a fable...