Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taxpayer ((about)) the real cost of the bailout." Near midnight on Friday, Congress approved a compromise worked out with the White House in which only $20 billion of the program's costs will be charged to the budget. The Government will issue special 30-year bonds to raise the rest. President Bush is expected to sign the legislation this week...
When he was old and rich, Shaw wrote poorly, at least according to critical consensus. The only horizon his mighty best seller Rich Man, Poor Man expanded was that of the television mini-series. And the rest of his late work inspired little beyond envy of the author's expensive expatriate life, which the work subsidized...
Finally, the case for Irwin Shaw must rest on the short stories, in which the force of simple observation, uncomplicated inspiration, modest but authentic craftsmanship are sufficient to sustain both writer and reader. A life devoted to such work might not have inspired a biography as lively as this one. But it might have provided the truly exemplary qualities Shnayerson strains so hard to find...
...Bush now has the authority to appoint people to acting positions in the administration without Senate approval. Although it is unclear if Bush will name Lucas to a Justice Department post, the president, who has drawn criticism for not filling important positions, should be able to put together the rest of the executive branch puzzle...
...should just ignore these factors reeks of the kind of placating "polite feminism" or gradual action that does more damage to rights groups by discouraging any kind of real change. It is only a modified version of the "don't make waves" theory that the privileged class feeds the rest to ensure they remain...