Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 4,470 delegates and alternates, 12,000 journalists and a projected 10,000 guests, the Republican hoedown will be both smaller than the Democrats' and smaller than expected (the party canceled about 12,000 unneeded hotel reservations last month). To ferry conventioneers between the 47 delegation hotels and...
Democratic Candidate Walter Mondale has promised to try to kill the bill. Reagan has said he finds the version passed by the House unacceptable because it includes an expensive, unlimited pledge by the Federal Government to reimburse states for the cost of the reforms. He told Republican Senator Alan Simpson...
The President was forced early in his news conference to deal with an item left over from the Democratic Convention, namely Mondale's bold assertion that any Chief Executive, including Reagan, will be forced to raise taxes in 1985. The issue was tricky for Reagan not only because of...
Intellectually the Democrats' case is eminently arguable. But politically it is hard to sell. Voters may not believe that a party whose convention resounded with exhortations about the sanctity of Social Security and Medicare is serious about cutting spending. Mondale's promise to raise taxes certainly was courageous...
When the run on the bank started in May, sparked by rumors that Continental was unsound and was about to be sold to three Japanese financial institutions, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve and dozens of banks began supplying billions in funds in an effort to stop the panic. A package...