Word: pleasing
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Dismayed by huge deficits of $100 billion or more projected by nearly all the competing resolutions, but unable to agree on any combination of spending cuts and tax increases that would hold the red ink even to those figures, the legislators fragmented into splinter groups. Conservatives would accept no big...
MICHIGAN. Friends said that he was simply exhausted after nearly 14 years of trying to arrest the disintegration of his state's automobile-oriented economy. William Milliken, 60, admitted that Michigan's dismal fiscal condition influenced his decision to "run for cover" instead of for office this year...
Nowhere was that intensity more evident than in the House of Commons, where angry Conservative demands to "get on with" a counterinvasion vied with pleas from the opposition Labor Party to avoid precipitate action. Bolstered by a poll that showed the public in favor of a full-scale invasion, Thatcher...
It was a week that tested the limits of diplomacy. Even as British forces attacked a small Argentine garrison on South Georgia Island, the two sides were still exchanging ideas through Washington in hopes of settling the Falkland Islands dispute. Israeli bombs fell on southern Lebanon, but the Palestine Liberation...
Most of those arrested were first offenders, and in return for their "no contest" pleas were given the option of either paying their fines outright, giving a pint of blood to the Red Cross, or doing volunteer work. Chute said last night, adding that he opted to give blood.