Word: provisionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A is for Alcohol. For the discriminating palate, the five-year-old Moet and Chandon champagne lists for $30.49 at the Harvard Provision Shop (94 Mt. Auburn). For smaller wallets, they offer Cavas Hill champagne at $6.99. If you're looking for that distinctive, and yet inexpensive, alcoholic gift, there...
Congressional sources, speaking privately, saidthe provision of funds to the Afghan rebels was acovert operation carried out by the CIA afterauthorization by Congress. The diversion of fundsto the Contra forces occurred at a time whenCongress had banned aid to the Contra forces.
In Congress, the loudest uproar concerns whether the President violated Section 501 of the National Security Act. Under amendments passed in 1980, the section requires the President to keep the House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of all U.S. intelligence activities. In the case of covert operations...
"He knows the tax code," William Proxmire once said of Long, "as thoroughly as the Pope knows the Lord's Prayer." As head of the Finance Committee, Long defended tax laws beneficial to Louisiana's oil and gas industry, which no doubt also benefited him, as he inherited considerable oil...
In contrast to the new capital gains provision, other parts of the tax law could help boost stock prices. It contains sections, for example, that will make mergers and acquisitions somewhat less attractive in 1987 by generally increasing the taxes that buyers of companies have to pay after the transactions...