Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the present drinking law, measuring .10 is "usually not enough to arrest someone. You'd have to blow a .10 and be seen weaving around," Robbins said...
...calculate how many exemptions to claim for their 1987 income tax withholding. The purpose of the voluminous instructions for the new W-4, IRS Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs says, is to help ensure that "people's withholding will be reasonably close to the actual amount of tax owed." At present, overwithholding by many taxpayers results in $70 billion worth of refunds annually, and underwithholding for others generates $440 million in penalties...
...year-old Communist insurgency. The President then announced that she had appointed Deputy Defense Minister Rafael Ileto, a West Point graduate and former Ambassador to Iran and Thailand, to succeed Enrile. Said the President: "I hereby give notice to all those who may be inclined to exploit the present situation that the sternest measures will be taken against them if they...
...preventive measures against the recklessness of some elements in the military." Ileto became the first member of the new Cabinet to be sworn in. Lest anyone miss the point, Ramos issued a statement through a palace spokesman declaring that the "New Armed Forces of the Philippines stands behind the present government of President Aquino...
...spare parts to Iran -- which shattered the entire foundation of the Administration's fervent public efforts to take a strong stand against terrorism -- Reagan and his aides last week seemed only to be erecting a Tower of Babel abuzz with conflicting and contradictory voices. Presidential confidants past and present got into a public squabble: former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, one of the architects of the President's Iranian policy, called the arms transfers a "mistake," and was promptly accused by Chief of Staff Donald Regan of giving "lousy advice." The President and his Secretary of State, George Shultz, apparently...