Word: rollback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ways and Means proposal would gain $11.5 million in fiscal 1990 by giving the Department of Public Welfare rate-setting powers, and tightening Medicaid certification. It would generate $5 million in savings through repeal of a 1980 rollback in group insurance rates...
...founders of the movement in the '50s and early '60s -- the people who wrote for National Review and nominated Barry Goldwater -- included Southern Agrarians and free-marketeers, isolationists and advocates of the rollback of Communism, students of T.S. Eliot and fans of Joseph McCarthy. In the '70s there was a mass immigration of mugged liberals -- the neoconservatives. Communism acted on all these grouplets as a powerful unifying force. Whether you wanted an American Century or a minimal state, you could not be comfortable with Soviet aggrandizement. Lenin was anathema whether your philosophical polestar was Thomas Aquinas or Ayn Rand. Like...
...keep up with the American arms buildup (redoubled in the '80s) and underwrite expansionism has led the Soviet Union into dire straits and the desire to lower the level of the arms race--an option made possible since U.S. policy is committed to the "containment" and not the "rollback" of Communism...
Many Catholic academicians, pleased with the laissez-faire environment that has developed since the Second Vatican Council, are anxious to prevent any rollback. The Vatican, on the other hand, intends to issue a long-pending decree on higher education including specific provisions for removing dissidents. The whole issue could come to a head next month when some 170 Catholic leaders from around the world meet in Rome to discuss the final draft of the decree. Father Richard McBrien, chairman of the University of Notre Dame theology department, is confident that the document will cause no change in the status...
...Wright said yesterday a "clear majority" of the House privately supported his plan for dodging a pre-deadline vote and then voting a partial rollback of the raise along with a ban on honoraria...