Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even California, once recession-proof, is suffering. The state that started the tax-cutting craze in 1978 is facing a shortfall of between $500 million and $1 billion in a $25.2 billion budget. Oil severance taxes, spending cuts and short-term outside borrowing are among the remedies under consideration. Says State Finance Administrator Mary Ann Graves: "We're on the razor's edge. And if the economy doesn't turn around, we're clearly over the edge...
...Gorey, who assisted him in some interviews and checking. Indeed, several other TIME correspondents extensively pursued the Haig theory before Dean began chasing it in earnest last summer. Their verdict, with which Gorey concurs: the theory is intriguing, but it remains no more than a theory. Dean has no proof...
Slip-ups by Emery's own campaign have also asked Mitchell in his comeback bid. An early Emery statewide campaign mailing claimed that Mitchell was soft on defense and offered as proof an alleged rating of zero given Mitchell by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. But the VFW made that rating when Mitchell had only been in the Senate for two months and had not yet voted on any major defense legislation. Emery was forced to make an embarrassing retraction, and later fired his campaign manager and press secretary...
...contrary. It was De Lorean who seized the invalid Pontiac division of General Motors and pumped it back to life. It was De Lorean (so goes the tale) who showed the corporate stuffed shirts the writing on the wall. Where was the fuel-efficient, practical, obsolescence-proof carriage for the common man? asked our ageless pioneer. No one looked up from the boardroom table. The point is that for all his boogying and Ursula Andressing, De Lorean actually understood what...
...professors though devoted a little more planning to the Halloween rites, James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, offered M&M's candy, he said, "since they're tamper-proof...