Word: renewable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-to-three decision last Tuesday night, the school committee voted not to renew Superintendent William C. Lannon's contract when it expires in August...
...debates within the Administration over the speech draft, Feldstein, Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman and Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige contended that Reagan should at least renew a proposal he made reluctantly last year for a threeyear, $50 billion tax increase, conditional on congressional approval of deep spending cuts and a string of other "ifs." But Reagan's philosophical convictions make him loath to propose any tax increase any time, and his political sensibilities make him doubly loath to do such a thing in an election year. At one point, aides inserted in a State...
...civil warfare among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization had eased pressure on Israel to pursue negotiations toward autonomy for the Palestinians, since there was no one in a position to speak with authority for those West Bank residents. Although King Hussein last week reportedly was willing to renew conversations with Yasser Arafat on whether Jordan should open talks with Israel on the future of the West Bank and Gaza, the P.L.O. leader's besieged position in Tripoli made him seem irrelevant to any negotiations...
...Europeans, however, hope that U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz will attend a Jan. 17 meeting in Stockholm of the 35-nation Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. If Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko also shows up, the meeting could offer an opportunity to renew the superpower dialogue on European-based missiles...
...that she might never be fully admitted to the magic circle: Rather, Brokaw, Jennings. But she did not relent. Last year the newscaster published a Pollyanna autobiography, Anchorwoman, that seemed like an extended press release. Says Barbara King, who helped her with the book: "She thought if she could renew the old glory, one of the networks would offer a bigger and better job." None did, but a new deal with NBC reportedly raised her salary to nearly $500,000; the network was considering her as a substitute on Today during Jane Pauley's upcoming maternity leave...