Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan did pledge that the Pentagon would feel the budget-cutting pinch too. He proposed to close some military bases and pare down a pay raise for civilian employees of the Department of Defense. Even so, military spending next fiscal year would rise $4.3 billion over the $181.5 billion Jimmy...
The students appeared to make only two major concessions in return: 1) a pledge that their union charter would declare allegiance to the Polish constitution, which enshrines the party's leading role, and 2) a requirement that only those strikes approved by a majority of the student body would...
What Calvo-Sotelo did pledge was to remain in office until the next elections, scheduled for 1983, but few took the possibility seriously. With so little parliamentary support, the new government could easily stumble over the first serious issue it tackles; elections seem all but inevitable later this year. The...
The avowed purpose of issuing the don't-hit list was to redeem Reagan's pledge that his spending cuts would not hurt the "truly needy." But many veterans and Social Security pensioners scarcely meet the stern definition of truly needy people offered by OMB Associate Director Donald...
What had happened in 1967 was that the church broadened its body of creeds and loosened the vows required of new clergy. Presbyterian ministers formerly had to pledge that they "receive and adopt" the Westminster Confession and catechisms. Since 1967 they have only had to promise to be "instructed" and...