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After months of balancing every member's special interest, the House and Senate succeeded last week in producing an omnibus trade bill designed to rein in the ballooning $170 billion trade deficit...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Trading In Opportunities | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...chemist employed by a British textile company. Writing about that period in his life "opened a lot of interior doors and windows. I remember Shanghai as a place where anything was possible, where the collective imagination, for good and evil, was allowed full rein. I have spent my whole life as a writer trying to reach and realize that vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of Time and the River THE DAY OF CREATION | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...past, the Congress has not been able to opppose Reagan's policy effectively and has allowed the Administration a relatively free hand, analysts say. "For the most part, Congress has not figured out ways to rein in the executive branch in these areas," Blanton says...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Harvard's Coalition Building Pays Off | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Delaney Smith also gives her players a lot of free rein on how they should play on the court...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Curing the Basketball Blues | 3/8/1988 | See Source »

...part of a decade, the tune did not originate with him. Ever since Ulysses S. Grant in 1876, Presidents have asked Congress for the power to reject individual appropriations without wiping out an agency's entire budget. Reagan has argued that a line-item veto would allow him to rein in the big spenders on Capitol Hill and bring down the deficit. Says a White House aide: "What we're talking about is changing a pattern of behavior that has existed for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking A Scalpel to the Deficit | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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