Word: saving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people are still focused on Ethiopia? How many people are going to spend a week of their only extended vacation trying to save some lives? But that's Mickey...
Behind the scenes, the Administration was working in a crisis mode. In private Bush described himself as going through "the most difficult time of my presidency," and by week's end the strain in his face was pronounced. To save Cicippio, the State Department set up a round-the-clock hostage task force, while the White House launched a diplomatic rescue effort that one U.S. envoy called "a full-court press on everybody we know." Characteristically, the President worked the phone with the heads of state of most European allies and nations in the Middle East -- with the notable exception...
...plant in 1987. Yoder, who is married with a 17-month-old son, now earns about a third less than the $11.47 hourly wage he was paid at Fruehauf and receives no health insurance from his present employer. Says he: "Sure, I got another job, but I can't save a dime. We wanted to have another baby, but we can't afford it. I didn't know what an LBO was until a couple of years ago. They said that a lot of people got rich. Well, I wasn't one of them...
...eleventh-hour amends are unlikely to save the exchanges from increased regulatory scrutiny. Last week the House Agriculture Committee voted to boost the budget of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees the Chicago markets, from $34.7 million to $44.5 million by 1991. And in a step designed to prevent front-running, the committee moved to partly restrict brokers from trading for their own and their clients' accounts at the same time...
...program, one of the most immediate comes from the conservative faction inside the party. Gorbachev has been chipping away at the conservatives since he took power 4 1/2 years ago, and now sometimes gives the impression that he is willing to destroy the party in order to save it. By creating a new legislature and making himself head of state, he has built a fallback power center from which he can bombard the party's hard-liners and, if necessary, defend against their counterattacks...