Word: planked
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Fine's other major plank is the elimination of "dead weight" on the council. Fine says he wants a more inclusive council, adding that he wants to assign a project or issue to every single council member...
...Home buyers who can still afford to shopthe average rate on 30-year fixed- rate mortgages has already climbed from 6.75% late last year to 9.2%, which helped cut housing starts 5.2% last monthare preparing to scrimp on other spending. Two weeks ago, Denver lawyer Patrick Plank and his wife Betsy took out a 9.5% fixed-rate mortgage with a low down payment that they are using to buy an $85,000 town house. "Any interest rate in single digits still looks good," Plank says. But the cost of the mortgage is forcing him to keep his 1987 Toyota instead...
...inducements to get them to switch positions. Meanwhile, Chiquita filed a formal protest against the European quotas in conjunction with the U.S. banana producers in Hawaii, even though the banana output in Hawaii doesn't amount to a hill of peels. The French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana plank. The Germans refused, insisting on their right to import bananas at will, guaranteed by the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Back in the islands, the Prime Minister of the island of Dominica, Dame Eugenia Charles, has warned that if her people...
...Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's position had become politically untenable after Democrats as well as Republicans accused him of misleading Congress about his contacts with the White House over an investigation of the Arkansas savings and loan at the heart of the affair. A day after Altman walked the plank, he was followed by Jean Hanson, the chief Treasury lawyer, who had been criticized for failing to correct misstatements she knew Altman had made in congressional testimony...
Meanwhile, the two issues have become intermingled. Will whatever basic plan is enacted subsidize abortions for poor women? Soon enough, politicians will have to show their colors. Observers should take note of how many Republicans vote one way on the abortion plank of the platform and another way on health care...