Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taxpayers who relaxed when they read George Bush's lips now have something else to fret about: Michael Dukakis, Mario Cuomo, Jim Thompson and other Governors are mouthing a different message. Their states face deficits or pressing needs, and, unlike the Federal Government, they are barred from deliberately shelling out...
Despite those generous words, however, Washington's aid is largely symbolic and does not signal a new, comprehensive policy toward Eastern Europe. For example, Bush promised to push for reduced import duties on certain Polish products, but the goods covered under the President's pledge amount to as little as...
To be fair, there was little of the shamelessly self-congratulatory rhetoric that normally consecrates such empty agreements. The President called the budget pact a "first, manageable step" taken "in a constructive, bipartisan spirit." The Democrats reflected mild embarrassment over the ease with which they had capitulated to Bush's...
Temptation is the fourth of Havel's plays to be staged at the Public; a fifth, Slum Clearance, is scheduled later this year. Unfortunately, the Public's loyalty does not always result in illuminating productions. Temptation retells the Faust legend and evolves into a grimly believable portrait of life in...
Occasionally, I receive letters with obscene words and drawings. There are threats, the mildest being a pledge to beat my face in. Our weekly magazine is criticized in a newspaper that from force of habit no one dares argue with: * Pravda. The fear caused by this newspaper is supposed to...