Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The three Independent seats will probably doom the lay-off policy implemented by the current CCA-dominated school committee. That policy blocked the layoff of minority and many younger teachers; the Independents campaigned on a pledge of lay-off by strict seniority.
All these shortcomings combined to make the AWACS deal a nightmarish brush with disaster. The story began in a way, in 1978, when President Jimmy Carter pushed through a reluctant Congress the sale of the 60 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia. He did so. with arguments remarkably similar to...
The White House wanted an open commitment from Republican William Cohen of Maine, another co-sponsor of the resolution to reject the sale. Cohen is a friend of Presidential Adviser Michael Deaver, and they discussed the issue at length. He also met twice with the President. In their second session...
Mitterrand also endorsed plans to modernize the other two pillars of France's nuclear force de frappe, bombers and missiles. The plans call for equipping the country's 35 Mirage IV strategic bombers with air-to-ground missiles and studying a new, possibly mobile system for protecting its...
The Administration's immediate problem is the hemorrhaging federal deficit. Though he took office on a pledge to balance the budget by 1984, the President last week found himself confronting the humiliating prospect of having to preside over what might become the biggest four-year run-up in the...