Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pity that more men do not realize the pleasures and benefits to be had from membership in one of the various musical organizations in the University. The Freshman Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs, which practice through the winter and give three or four concerts shortly after the spring recess, offer an opportunity not only to make new acquaintances...but also to gain valuable lessons in singing or instrumental playing." And when the Union, then run as a club reported that its enrollment lists were not full, he scolded: "It is not the men really unable to afford...
...four mayoral ballots cast by the council were inconclusive--no one got the necessary five votes, and no one appeared likely to win a majority if the meeting went all night. So when councilor Saundra Graham moved to recess the meeting for a week, there was no opposition...
...shut down. Placed in a no-win situation, Congress grudgingly gave Reagan the minimum he had demanded: a temporary funding bill that extends present spending levels only to Dec. 15. So the battle simply resumes when both President and Congress return to Washington this week from the brief Thanksgiving recess, and there are no guarantees that it will not go down to the deadline again...
...measures Congress took up again last week after returning from recess included small increases for both the NSF and the NIH, which last year spent $3.56 billion and $1.04 billion, respectively. The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities each received far smaller cuts in their budgets than Stockman had asked for. The Museum Services Administration, which Stockman had sought to eliminate, received $9.6 million. "Considering where we could have been with some of these things, we escaped in pretty good shape," says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for research and the allied institutions. The backlog of grant applications...
...Reagan Administration is how to keep demands for U.S. countermeasures from boiling over in Congress, where Canada's attitude toward cross-border investment is much resented. A Congressional move to impose a moratorium on large-scale Canadian stock investments in the U.S. was sidetracked prior to the summer recess earlier this month. But a bill that would subject foreign corporate borrowers to the same requirements that apply to U.S. firms is expected to pass easily when the House and Senate reconvene in September...