Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very welcome,' and I said it so coldly." That was the last she heard of John, she said, until a Washington reporter called to ask if she knew that her son had just shot the President. She wept at the memory. The judge called a recess as John Hinckley was led from the courtroom, shaken by his mother's appearance. -By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by David S.Jackson/Washington
Jones was among the handful of Capitol Hill leaders who stayed around Washington last week even though Congress was in recess. They were trying to find a formula for a new budget that may signal hope for financial markets. Jones has met secretly in his Capitol Hill town house with White House Aide James Baker. Other Democrats were present for an equally veiled meeting at Baker's home in the fashionable environs of Foxhall Road. Jones' own political lines, to the farmers and businessmen in his district in Oklahoma, suggest to him that we have only until...
...chance for an economy-salvaging solution to the budget dilemma. Baker has been briefing his boss almost daily, and the President has shown signs that he is open to a compromise with Congress. "I look forward to progress being made as soon as they come back from the Easter recess," Reagan said last week, adding that he would not object to a "summit" with Democratic leaders. The Speaker will go along with the budget compromise, his aides say, as long as Reagan takes the lead: "Only the President can persuade the American people to swallow the medicine...
...Begin government barely survived a no-confidence motion that ended in a 58-58 tie vote. But for a budget vote last week, Begin gained the tacit support of an opposition member, Mordechai Ben-Porat of the TELEM party. Then at midweek, the Knesset took a five-week recess for the Passover holiday. The government thus seemed to be secure until the Knesset meets again in early May, and by that time the politically sensitive withdrawal from the Sinai will have been completed...
...news to him. Begin then turned in his seat, grimacing, to stare at Druckman for a moment. When Savidor announced the vote, Begin rose to his feet without using his cane. "Mr. Speaker," he said, "I must call a Cabinet meeting now, and therefore I ask for a recess...