Word: retraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away on national defense without sending a message to the world that would be very unwise." As for the supply-side tax cut: "To abandon our tax policy now would be to give up the very fundamental thing that is required to expand our economy." He thus seemed to retract some of the flexibility suggested by Budget Director David Stockman in testimony to the House Budget Committee two days earlier. Stockman rejected proposals that the Pentagon budget could be cut by more than $20 billion, but he gave no direct answer when asked about the feasibility of a $10 billion...
...would be to repeal most of last year's largesse. Some legislators, appalled at their handiwork, are talking of doing just that. Says Rhode Island Republican John Chafee, a member of the Senate Finance Committee: "I think we've got to step in and either delay or retract some of those tax cuts...
Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee said that his paper did not immediately plan to retract. He did not argue that the Post knew for sure that Blair House had been bugged, but insisted that certain people (unnamed) had claimed that it was. Said Bradlee: "There were 20 people who said it before we ran it. I know what we said was true." McClellan contended that the Carters "know perfectly well it is true...
...hasn't written an editorial he'd retract, he says with frankness bordering on the glib. Not yet, he laughs...
...BUFF and one tanker aborted on the ground, victims of a balky generator and an engine "trouble" light that would not go out. A second B-52 had to quit formation; its right front-landing gear would not retract, so it could not keep up. Officially, the Air Force has high confidence in these old planes and the young men who fly them. Despite the much vaunted Soviet air defense network, they believe the B-52s can get through, take out their targets, and perhaps even return to base...