Word: pledgees
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That would be dwarfed by another huge increase in the Pentagon budget: Reagan is requesting a 13% (after inflation) rise in spending authorization, to $305 billion (see following story). "To those who say we must raise taxes, I say wait," the President declared. He did couple his less-than-clarion...
The 42-minute address, interrupted some three dozen times by applause, was upbeat, inspirational and politically calculating. While emphasizing the need for bipartisanship, it was carefully worded to shore up Reagan's points of vulnerability and pre-empt Democratic issues. In classic campaign style, the speech contained something for everyone...
In an impassioned plea reminiscent of John F. Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon within the decade, Reagan last week called upon Congress to endorse another leap into the cosmos and establish a permanent space station. He unveiled the proposal just before the tenth...
This of course assumes that students would prefer public service if the payoff were somewhat higher (though not necessarily equivalent to the private sector) and I am optimistic most would. It is quite noble to expect the American people not to ask what their country can do for them, but...
to announce that it would never be the first to use nuclear weapons, a pledge the West has always avoided because nuclear weapons are its most effective security guarantee in the face of the Soviet bloc's superiority in conventional weapons in Europe.