Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As busy as George Bush is these days, when two prior occupants of the Oval Office ask for an audience it would be impolitic to turn them down. Thus last week former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter got 50 minutes of the President-elect's time to present the...
During the presidential campaign, George Bush vowed repeatedly to make education the domestic centerpiece of his Administration. With the reappointment of Lauro Cavazos as Secretary of Education, he has given the first indication of how he plans to carry out his pledge to be the education President.
But Sununu is no Dan Quayle. A seasoned and quick-witted political street fighter, he is respected as crafty, tough and stubborn. An M.I.T.-trained engineer and nuclear-power enthusiast who is completing his third term as Governor, he holds a deep conservatism that is both economic and social. Sununu...
The conductress wanted some money. That, in the end, decided where I was going. My budget only went as far as Reading, and there I got off. I stood vacantly watching commuters and families getting into cars, until the tracks behind me were once again empty. I had come to...
To the discomfort of conservative hard-liners, budget compromise appears inevitable. The Pentagon will need $475 billion in added spending over the next five years merely to finish projects started under Reagan, and that doesn't include various expensive weapons -- the Stealth bomber, Seawolf submarine, D5 Trident missile -- soon to...