Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent on deployment of the 21 missiles authorized last year and now under construction; second, the $1.5 billion needed for the 15 missiles in 1985 would not be released until both the House and the Senate passed authorization and appropriations bills again before next year's Easter recess. All of which means that if the Administration loses any of those four votes on the MX, production of the missile would end with the group of 21 now under...
...calling for a $96 billion defense cut, and for a while last week threatened to vote down an urgently needed increase in the national-debt ceiling unless the Senate gave in. Faced with the prospect that the Government would grind to a halt during the three-week congressional recess, the Democrats eventually relented and went along with a $53 billion debt-ceiling increase, raising the figure to an almost unimaginable $1.6 trillion. Even this will allow the Government to borrow only enough to pay its bills through August...
Every year before its summer recess the U.S. Supreme Court caps months of work with a final deluge of opinions that appears to undermine the institution's image as a temple of calm reflection. Whether the cause is the court's work load or the Justices' inclination to be dilatory, this year has been no different. At the start of last week, the court still had 43 undecided cases, almost one-quarter of the full term's output. By the end of last week, 20 decisions had been announced in a mountain of opinions, concurrences...
...meet this week. Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming, a chief sponsor of the bill, has warned that he cannot accept one House amendment. Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky, the other major architect, doubts that the differences can be resolved before Congress begins its three-week summer recess Friday...
Explains Johnson: "One of my fellas sitting on a bench says, 'Come on in, celebrate the recess, the lunch break; take a moment and use this spot.' " Touching and interacting with the sculptures are not only encouraged, but are unstoppable. Children sit in their bronze laps; on chilly nights adults drape sweaters over their shoulders. In the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, in Trenton, N. J., hundreds of passers-by have sat in the empty seat across the chess table from the bronze figure of a perplexed loser to have their picture taken. In southeast Washington, neighborhood youths...