Word: reports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been climbing, she says precisely, "for 11 1/2 years." She is a gifted rock climber. At extreme altitude, she is an aerobic marvel, renowned for climbing at unusual speed. She and the rest used bottled oxygen much of the time because of the dangers of altitude sickness. A reporter with some experience at altitude asks whether she felt sluggish and slow-thinking when she wasn't using oxygen. This is what he remembers and what virtually all climbers report. Not Allison; she said she had no problems, with or without oxygen. And clearly this is true; at the summit, which...
...until last week that the FBI finally finished the last of its six reports on Tower. On Monday White House aides put the best possible spin on the findings, claiming that "there is nothing in this report to indicate that Tower is unfit for office." Next day the President joined the steamroller, declaring flatly, "The allegations that have been hanging over this ((nomination)) have been gunned down...
Even for some Republicans on the committee, Bush had gone too far. When he got to read the FBI report, Warner conceded that the document could readily lead to "credible differences of opinion" on what conclusions could be drawn from it. Bob Dole, who is not on the committee, noted that the President "was not totally accurate" in assessing the report. Nunn observed coldly, "That's the President's opinion, and I'm sure he thought carefully about it. It's not my opinion...
...insisting "we've got the votes" to confirm Tower over the powerful Nunn's opposition, a boast echoed by other White House officials only a day before the committee vote. Bush's political judgment was no better. It was the President who proclaimed last Tuesday that an FBI report had "gunned down" the allegations of heavy drinking and womanizing by Tower...
After the latest numbers became public, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave moneymen an anxiety attack by his frank acknowledgment of the problem. Testifying before Congress, Greenspan called the CPI report "disturbing" because it suggested that the U.S. economy was close to overheating despite the Fed's eleven-month effort to slow it down by subtly tightening the credit supply. Noting that last week's report followed January's startling 1% rise in the Wholesale Price Index, a leap of 12.7% on a compounded annual basis, Greenspan warned, "If inflation re-emerges, I think a recession will move...