Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill would clear up errors and ambiguities in the 1986 tax overhaul; relieve farms and some other businesses from paying the federal tax on diesel fuel used for off-road purposes and extend several expiring provisions...
...some ways, China's road to reform should be less rocky than the Soviet Union's. Beijing does not have a nationalities problem as severe as the one that confronts and distracts Moscow. Unlike the Soviets, the Chinese seem imbued with a natural entrepreneurial drive. But the Soviet Union has a broader industrial base, and its people are more highly skilled and better educated...
...once, the most oft-used adjective about a candidate is the most accurate: patrician. Courteous and deferential, he wears his down-home credentials as discreetly as the LMB monograms that dot the breast pockets of his fine cotton shirts. As a campaigner, he is like a good tire: durable, road-tested, puncture-proof. But no one would ever describe him as electrifying: he often seems to be moving and speaking in slow motion. Unlike many men in public life, he looks his age, a weathered 67. His sense of humor is as dry as a prairie breeze. In the operating...
...national mood is the best in four years, and Bush benefits. -- Behind the rosy economic numbers of the Reagan boom, middle- class Americans feel squeezed. Once again this election poses a critical question: Are you better off? -- A backlash for the A. C. L. U. -- On the road with Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen, this week' s debaters. -- Shrinking the Underclass -- a campaign essay...
Intangibles: Harvard has not lost three games in a row since 1986, when it dropped four in a row. The Crimson faces a tough road schedule (games at Princeton and Penn) and needs a victory against Cornell to make those road trips less pressure-packed. Harvard is seeking revenge. Last year, Cornell won, 29-17, in Ithaca...