Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week an outside agitator stepped forward and concentrated congressional attention. The unlikely catalyst: Ronald Reagan, who had resolutely ignored Congress's budget dilemma after his own spending plan had been rejected by both Democrats and Republicans. Returning from a humdrum summit in Venice and limping from the continuing Iran-contra revelations, the President was looking for a quick score. So Reagan did what he does best: he took to the airwaves and attacked the old "tax and tax, spend and spend" ways of the Democrats. The assault pushed Byrd and House Speaker Jim Wright into hurried meetings with their...
...about heading south to study tropical plants? Summer School students enrolled in Biology S-105, "Plants of the Tropics," will spend the next four weeks studying botany in the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami...
Move over PBS. MTV is taking over in at least one Harvard classroom. Students taking Royston Coppenger's course, "Popular Entertainment: From Melodrama to Rock and Roll," will spend classtime watching film and video screenings of popular works...
...story about his alleged affairs. In a LIFE interview, Jesse Jackson's wife warned that her husband's fidelity was nobody's business. Said she: "I don't believe in examining sheets." Nonetheless, candidates who prefer to devote their time offering visions of the future are likely to spend much of the present talking about themselves, their character and their credibility...
...mother. Some initial results were unsettling. Day-care children were more likely to remain anxious even after the parent had come back. Some actively avoided their mother. Last September in a report published in the journal Zero to Three, Belsky reversed his earlier position. He concluded that babies who spend more than 20 hours a week in nonmaternal care during the first year of life risk having an "insecure attachment" to their mothers. He pointed to evidence that such children are more likely to become uncooperative and aggressive in early school years...