Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential party seemed to be reflecting the exuberant mood of its boss. Still flying high from his pre-vacation triumphs in enacting his budget and tax cuts, a competitive Reagan seemed eager to take on all those who doubt that he can slash taxes, rebuild U.S. military might, check inflation, bring down interest rates and balance the federal budget by 1984. Stopping off in Chicago for a Republican Party fund-raising dinner, the President almost shouted as he promised to whack another $70 billion from federal spending in fiscal 1983 and 1984. "We are going to do it," he declared...
...people signed up in the first five hours. The Government was preparing to fly without PATCO forever. Declared a confident Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, who piloted that strikebreaking course under close White House supervision: "To all intents and purposes, the strike is over. Our concern is to rebuild the system...
...good deal of success. So far this year ETA killings are down to 28, about half the 1980 rate. Last week the government announced the arrest of seven alleged ETA members in Vizcaya province and the seizure of substantial quantities of arms and ammunition. In an attempt to rebuild its popularity, the beleaguered ETA is now adopting the protest tactics of the Irish Republican Army: a group of 14 ETA prisoners last week launched a hunger strike...
...already declared that "we Socialists would never have signed this [nuclear] contract. At least not without a clearer idea of Iraqi intentions. And not without clearer guarantees that it could be used only for peaceful purposes." Paris would likely demand much tougher restrictions for the reactor if asked to rebuild...
Another threatened species, Homo sapiens, appears to be re-establishing itself as tenaciously as the lichens that grow on the mountain's rocks. A few people fled the area after last year's eruption, too nervous to stay or too stunned and depressed to rebuild their disrupted lives. A handful of local loggers and their families emigrated to Alaska to avoid having to live near the volcano. But most are making money cleaning up. Tom Henderson, a foreman of a team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber...