Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking back over the long accumulation of deficits, which stretches back to the last balanced budget in 1969, Florida's Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles acknowledges that "we always seem to come up with a new slogan to patch over gaps in our willpower." And looking ahead to the dangers that Gramm-Rudman may bring, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz says, "It is perhaps a little mindless, but it may be the only way out of the morass." All of which is another way of asking, If Gramm-Rudman is too arbitrary, what is going to get the Government...
...seen the value of their energy investments tumble with previous drops in the price of oil and natural gas. Says Alan Edgar, a petroleum analyst for the Dallas investment firm Schneider, Bernet & Hickman: "The bankers have got to be nervous. Next year will be the worst for the oil patch...
...candidate in the Feb. 7 presidential election. On Wednesday, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 52, did the same thing. With the ink on Aquino's registration papers barely dry and with only hours remaining before the midnight filing deadline, there was only the dimmest hope that the two opposition leaders would patch up their differences and revive plans that had collapsed three days earlier to run on a single ticket. The possibility loomed that the opposition vote would be split in the snap election--and President Ferdinand Marcos, 68, would be assured of victory...
...many. And though even a reproduction of a great painting can have a powerful effect, there is something magical about the uniqueness of the original, the knowledge that Rembrandt applied his brush just here, nowhere else, and never again. Or somebody did. So we wander into that philosophical bramble patch at the edge of the legendary forest where the legendary tree falls and nobody is there to hear whether it makes a sound. Is the famous Etruscan warrior whom the Metropolitan Museum declared a fake some years ago any less handsome than he was back when we thought...
...moment, such concerns seem the least of Aquino's problems. Her hopes for an electoral success will be all but obliterated if she and Doy Laurel cannot patch up their differences. Laurel is a onetime Marcos ally and an experienced politician who, as head of UNIDO, controls the country's second strongest non-Communist political machine, after Marcos' K.B.L. The Aquino forces have counted on benefiting from UNIDO's political expertise in the weeks ahead. Instead, "Cory's Crusaders" may now have to combat their own inexperience as they hit the campaign trail. The UNIDO forces, meanwhile, may have...