Word: recession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Court-appointed mediated Charles M. Haar, Brandeis Professor of Law, said yesterday during a recess that the judge would not impose a specific plan because it would be difficult for the court to administer...
...that its budget is untouchable. No Administration has ever made such demands, and no Congress has ever accepted such demands." Only one Democrat, archconservative Phil Gramm of Texas, sided with the twelve Republicans in support of the President. Thus when Congress broke on Friday for a two-week Easter recess, the President's figures had been challenged by the budget committees of both legislative chambers...
...reason for the lack of opposition, as was learned by the many Congressmen and Senators who spent the Lincoln's Birthday recess with their constituents, is that the home folk share Reagan's belief that the Government cannot keep piling up deficits. Democratic Senator David Pryor warned constituents in Arkansas to expect severe cuts in the budget for the Farmers Home Administration, which extends credit to rural people who have trouble borrowing elsewhere. Their answer, according to Pryor: "Inflation is our worst enemy. If that's what it takes, we'll support it even...
...after a recess of just ten minutes, Reagan takes a seat in the Cabinet Room for what has been the daily "budget working group" session for the past three weeks. In these meetings, Budget Director David Stockman and heads of Cabinet departments have been going over spending cuts, agency by agen cy and sometimes project by project. Reagan begins the session on a light note...
After a five-day recess, Prosecutor Jiang Wen condemned Mme. Mao's defense as "a vicious slander and calumny of Chairman Mao Tse-tung." Significantly, the prosecutor did acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...