Word: specters
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While February's highly publicized Festival of Life may have led many people at Harvard to consider the impact of the AIDS crisis for the first time, the threat of the disease is nothing new to the Harvard gay community. For some, the specter of AIDS has dramatically altered individual mind sets as well as behavior...
...domestic budget was unnerving even to the Republican leadership of the Senate. Indeed, the current year's deficit of $203 billion is greater than the combined total of all discretionary domestic appropriations. Yet this time Congress cannot heedlessly dismiss the President's proposals. Looming in the background is the specter of the Gramm-Rudman law, passed last year, which threatens automatic cuts if the deficit is not reduced to $144 billion in 1987 and to zero by 1991. On Friday a three-judge federal panel declared the triggering mechanism of that law unconstitutional. But pending an appeal to the Supreme...
...Capitol Hill, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Arlen Specter asked President Reagan to name one of the Education Department's buildings after McAuliffe so that "her sacrifice will live forever in the memory of this nation." New York's Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman introduced legislation to designate Jan. 28 of each year as a permanent National Teacher Recognition Day. Florida's Democratic Congressman Bill Nelson, who, like Garn, had flown on a shuttle, proposed that seven of the newly discovered moons of the planet Uranus each be named for one of Challenger's victims. Colorado Republican William Armstrong went...
...almost any unionized company, cuts like these would have raised the specter of an immediate strike, but not at Eastern. Weeks ago the flight attendants' union pledged that it would not strike before March. Reason: Eastern is staggering under a $2.5 billion debt load, and its creditors have threatened to call in some of those loans on Feb. 28 if the airline has not substantially reduced its labor costs by then. If the loans are not renewed, Eastern could be forced into bankruptcy proceedings. The company's employees, who hold two seats on the board of directors, know...
...Texaco has a net worth of $13 billion, barely enough to cover the award. Texaco stock, which since Nov. 19 had plunged from $39.25 to $30.75, fell to $29.75 by the end of last week. Said Texaco Attorney Gibson Gayle: "What we have is the most devastating specter of disaster in legal history. It's portending the destruction of a major American company...