Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been called New England's most liberal alcohol policy; opening the Freshman Union until 7:30 every night and for all of Senior Week; enacting a new, more open housing lottery system; tightening up CUE Guide editorial policy; drafting a proposal currently before the Faculty Council to expand Thanksgiving Recess to a week; sponsoring a host of successful social events; publishing pamphlets on heating and interhouse hours; and writing a number of reports that will serve as the building blocks for future proposals...
From the streets and schoolyards of the nation's cities, the drug crisis came to roost on Capitol Hill last week. Though more than half a dozen measures awaited action before Congress's October recess, none were more important in the Senate than the hurriedly drafted anti-drug bill. When public opinion polls showed rising concern over drugs, both Senate and House members wanted to pass new laws that would sweep "crack" off the streets and help the legislators keep their seats in November. "This is war," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott, using the preferred metaphor...
Students said they are grateful that theCollege has tried to compensate them for theirexclusion from the four-day, million-dollarbirthday extravaganza held for alumni during thetail end of summer recess. Indeed, Epps, his twostudent co-chairmen and the steering committeespent the better part of the spring and summerplanning the event. Still some undergraduatesinterviewed said they feared the party for thestudents might turn into a party...
When the South African Parliament reconvened in Cape Town last week after a two-month recess, the government of State President P.W. Botha was expected to offer a bill to set up a national council of blacks and whites that would advise him on social and political matters. Though the council's recommendations would not be legally binding, its creation was supposed to be a conciliatory gesture to the country's 24 million voteless blacks. As it turned out, the government was not ready to offer such a bill, and there was speculation that Botha had decided...
...agreement that they would try to finish by Aug. 15. They were afraid that if they did not have a deal by then, the whole bill would be picked apart by a swarm of lobbyists who would descend on Senators and Representatives back home during the three-week recess...