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...equally significant level, the issue was not simply how much should be spent but how it should be spent. Some 34 weapons systems were initially killed, mainly by the House, but the conferees ended up restoring twelve of the major ones. Those that failed to regain funding were mostly "systems" that scarcely deserved the term: 250 forklift trucks (costing $26.3 million) and 1,413 motorcycles ($5.6 million), for example. Ironically, virtually the only concession granted by the Senate was to go along with the desire of the House to spend $100 million more for research on a future weapon...
...Germans rather than a time for the victor to join hands with the vanquished. Kohl was miffed, and his resentment lingered. When it turned out that the economic summit would bring Reagan to Bonn shortly before May 8, the V-E day anniversary, Kohl saw a chance to regain lost prestige. He thought some expression of the new bonds between his country and the U.S. would be in order 40 years after the wartime enmity. At the State Department, top officials viewed the occasion as a way to solidify the NATO alliance. The primary aim of the American diplomats, said...
...discharging the constitutional powers and duties" of his office. At best, he would be confined to Bethesda Naval Hospital for a week to ten days of postoperative recuperation after that. Even after he returned to the White House, it might take as long as two months for him to regain his full strength, and there would be continuing concern about the health of the oldest man ever to occupy the Oval Office...
...accede or propose acceptable modifications. The committee met last week and decided to ask that a three-year limit be put on some of Garrity's open-ended requirements. Overall, the mood in Boston is to give the judge what he wants as he heads for the door, regain control of the schools and then prove that the city can run a desegregated, quality system. John Lawson, commissioner of education for Massachusetts, summed up the feeling of good riddance with the terse comment, "Boston is at a point where it needs to be on its own." --By Ezra Bowen. Reported...
...would not want to live like this.” In the Schiavo case, the family is forced to argue that Terri should be kept alive because she might “get better”—that is, might be able to regain or to communicate her cognitive processes. The mere assertion that disability (particularly cognitive disability, sometimes called “mental retardation”) is present seems to provide ample proof that death is desirable...