Word: rollbacks
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...Historian Werner G. Hahn, a former CIA analyst, argues persuasively that some incipient but promising trends toward moderation were wiped out by a further wave of purges. The crackdown was in part a reaction to what was seen in the Kremlin as a new menace of "encirclement" and counterrevolutionary "rollback" emanating from the outside world...
...could more than double in succeeding years. Unwilling to battle that trend, the Tribune Co. put the paper up for sale last Dec. 18. After three fallow months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin), and that was soon to be repeated in Cleveland...
...cause of the run-up has been a series of rate adjustments by the California Public Utilities Commission, and the result has been to enrage consumers. Residents in 21 counties have staged electrical blackouts in protest, and at least 1 million people have signed petitions calling for a statewide rollback in rates. Last week more than 1,000 demonstrators converged in Sacramento for a "California tea party" and demanded that Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. declare a state of emergency. In Loomis, a crowd gathered in a school auditorium and chanted, 'We're mad as hell...
...nation's army of state and local officials, as well as less personally involved political scientists and economists, examined the sketchy outlines of Ronald Reagan's New Federalism last week, few quarreled with the President's professed goals. Many had long joined his call for a rollback in the overextension of the Federal Government, a more rational division of state and federal functions and the need to bring many governmental decisions closer to the people who must live with the results. The desire to get more value out of each tax dollar was warmly applauded. Declared Republican...
After reporters were shooed away, Stockman argued for 45 minutes in favor of a $30 billion reduction in 1983-84 defense authorizations. Weinberger, strongly supported by Haig, argued for a following 45 minutes that any rollback beyond about $7 billion or $8 billion would undermine the Administration's foreign policy commitments. Both men made liberal use of charts to back up their points; Stockman's were mostly numbers, but Weinberger's were illustrated with drawings of weapons such as tanks. Under questioning from Reagan, Stockman, whose presentation was the smoother of the two, came down...