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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, last week a compromise was reached after endless negotiations that left the office of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Senate floor manager for the funding bill, strewn with litter. The end was in sight. The Democratic House completed its chores, and most of its members scurried out of Washington. The Republican Senate convened for the final formalities, including an affectionate farewell tribute to retiring Majority Leader Howard Baker. All that remained was to raise the national debt ceiling by $251 billion, to $1.824 trillion, since the old limit would otherwise be surpassed. But then Democratic Senators balked. Long berated...
...rank, as he loses his community and family ties, sinking deeper into an almost unbroken isolation, also loses sight of any sort of purpose or joy in living--besides slapping down paint. An acquaintance of his says...
...need to push up the debt ceiling raises once again some perplexing questions that still bedevil economists and have even split members of the Reagan Administration: Will the deficit shrink or rise even further out of sight? How should it be attacked? What impact does the burgeoning national debt have on the economy? Do deficits, in fact, really matter...
...work would take off from an African object of the first rank. Such was the case with Picasso's bronze of Marie-Therese Walter, 1931, whose erotically swollen blimp of a nose is based on an effigy he owned of the fertility goddess Nimba from the Baga. The sight of these two sculptures confronting each other is as much a spectacle of parity as a Rubens beside its prototype, a Titian...
...Harvard wins those games, it'll be off to regionals in the spring, with the goal of a second national title in sight...