Word: overhauls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chose bankruptcy because it saw no prospect for a fast turnaround in the U.S. steel industry's epic slump. The company will operate in Chapter 11 for an estimated 1 1/2 to four years, shielded from creditors to whom it owes more than $4 billion, while it tries to overhaul its steel operations. Declared Chairman Raymond Hay: "We are fully confident that we will emerge from Chapter 11 as a strong, viable company." Indeed, bankruptcy in recent years has become much less final than it sounds. Last year the Wickes retailing and building-supply company and Continental Air both emerged...
Because of the abortion issue, the IRS is operating without a commissioner at a time when Congress is writing the final version of a major tax-overhaul plan...
...details of a bill that will touch the wallet of just about every citizen. And so the most coveted ticket in Washington has become a seat on the House-Senate conference committee that will meet, probably the week of July 14, to put in final shape a radical overhaul of federal tax law. With billions riding even on technical provisions, says Norman Ornstein, an expert on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute, the tax-bill negotiations "will be the conference of the century...
...trading can be expected later in House-Senate conference. Some of the far more generous transition rules kneaded into the House version of the bill will doubtless be bartered away, but others are sure to be affirmed in order to keep the support of influential Representatives for a sweeping overhaul of the tax code. Some of the deliberate obfuscation may clear up, however; the Senate last week piously passed a nonbinding resolution asking that the conference committee report the reason for each transition rule adopted, exactly who will profit and by how much--information that is still lacking on many...
...basketball player, he was widely regarded as too short and too slow, yet he wound up in the Hall of Fame. As a politician, he is often dismissed as too plodding and too pure. Yet this week, if as expected the Senate passes a < radical and sweeping overhaul of the tax system, Bradley will be able to take pride in the fact that, as he laconically notes, "I kind of suggested the idea...