Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Congress reconvenes next week, after a ten-day Easter recess, the African famine-relief bill, which was passed by the House with no funds for the contras, will go to a House-Senate conference to have differences reconciled. Leaders of the Democratic-controlled House have instructed their conferees to demand that all money for the contras be stricken from the bill, and they will have some Republican support. The mining, says Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, ranking G.O.R member on the House Appropriations Committee, is a "stupid, stupid thing." On the more general subject of aid to the contras...
...baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants to California in the early '60s, threatened our deepest illusions about sport because they were so blatantly mercenary. Forever shattered was the image of owners as kindly old gents who loved to be around players and considered sports an extended recess from the real world. Broken hearted New Yorkers asked what a city could call its own besides taxes, garbage, and perhaps a flashy slogan. The Big Apple has a cultural reputation verging on the mythic, but most of its citizens don't care about the Guggenheim, or Broadway...
...judge against another, while powerbrokers have simply taken the law into their own hands. After colliding in a scramble to seize private land, two government officials ended up drawing guns on each other in a courtroom last August. Having effected a shaky truce, the judge declared a 30-minute recess, left the room and never returned...
...plan was first proposed last fall by the council's Residential Committee, and a poll in the Houses after winter recess indicated student interest in the idea...
...that he got the U.S. into a no-win situation in Lebanon. Says G.O.P. Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island: "That shelling is terrible, completely contrary to what we stand for." Congress, however, is unlikely to do much except complain when it reconvenes this week after an eleven-day recess. Democrats are thanking their luck that they never brought to a vote resolutions mandating a pullout of the Marines, since Reagan could have then blamed them for a retreat that he later had to order on his own. Nor do they see much point in framing new resolutions that might...