Word: onslaughts
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...Congress and the Administration begin working this month to apportion the deepest spending cuts in America's history and to sort out the most far- reaching reform of the tax laws since World War II, the interests of the common citizen seem to stand no chance against the onslaught of lobbyists. Indeed, the tax bill that emerged from the House already bears their distinctive Gucci prints, and the budget is still filled with programs they have been able to protect...
...flooded congressional offices with some 22 million pieces of mail. The bankers' scare tactics were dubious--they managed to convince their depositors that the withholding provision was a tax hike, when in fact it was set up merely to make people pay taxes that they legally owed. But the onslaught worked. Over the objections of President Reagan and most of the congressional leadership, Congress voted overwhelmingly in 1983 to repeal withholding...
Hodel, a former head of the Bonneville Power Administration, took the onslaught with outward calm and an occasional smile. Iacocca was fired, he suggested, chiefly because he got too big for his britches. "The statue is more than Lee Iacocca," he said. Hodel's justification was, at best, a bit thin. He insisted that there was a "potential conflict of interest" between Iacocca's role as chairman of the governmental advisory commission and his leadership of the private Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the group that has been spectacularly successful in raising some $233 million for the restoration projects...
...first wave of Haitians washed up on American shores in the late 1950s. They were primarily doctors, engineers and other professionals who came armed with immigration papers. In 1972 the onslaught of illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that...
...women Nordic skiers continued their onslaught on the collegiate skiing world. Manya Deehr, Kristen Berggren and Joy Clendenning finished first, second and third, respectively, for the Crimson...