Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cutting the budget deficit is a task for America's best and coolest-headed. But even they are pounding the table in frustration, as was the case last week when the bipartisan National Economic Commission met. Congress created the panel last December, hoping it would produce a consensus on deficit-trimming measures (and take the heat off Congress to do so). But the deliberations, hemmed in by untouchable Social Security benefits on one side and antitax sentiment on the other, have taken on a sense of futility...
...nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since the candidates have admonished the panel to move in different directions...
Bush will face new opposition from the Democratic Congress, said both panel members. "The Democrats don't see any reason for being of any real assisstance to Mr. Bush," said Sears. Robert Dole may also work against Bush, he said. "Congress will force Bush to eat his words over taxes," he said...
More recently, Graham was among the creators ofthe civilian Police Review Advisory Board, theonly civilian panel in New England that reviewspolice conduct. Supporters noted that she hascontinued to antagonize the police politicallydespite her sons' tangles with...
...roar of a distant subway train. Tons of water are pouring down the 47-ft. drop at the Brockway Mills hydroelectric plant and smashing against the turbine blades. The glistening steel shaft connecting turbine to generator begins to revolve, accelerating quickly. Needles on gauges tremble and move upward; panel lights...