Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...structure will simplify the lines of authority in the Cabinet. Under the old plan, there were separate policy councils for a wide variety of makeshift realms, and this fragmented approach tended to stall in the face of major decisions. One significant implication of the organizational change is that Meese's role will be larger than previously supposed. A Reaganaut of long standing, he will have the broad charter to supervise social policy that he enjoyed as one of President Reagan's original "troika" of White House aides...
Perhaps his toughest task is to back off when being pressured. The stall is sometimes good in basketball and the presidency. When the heat was on the White House to placate farmers and Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad was pleading in the Oval Office for a 30-day extension for farm credit sign-ups, the President, Secretary of Agriculture John Block and Regan all melted. Branstad announced the decision on the White House steps to huzzahs from the farmers. A couple of hours later the beleaguered Senate Majority Leader, Robert Dole, rose in fury on the Hill and rocketed...
...Olympian dream comes in the bargain. "I want to ski the down hill course where Bill Johnson won the gold medal," states Philadelphian John O'Neil. Though he cannot understand the words, Rizo Uzicanin recognizes the glint in the American's eye and beams at him from his stall in the old Turkish market. Such tourist fantasies are warmer to Uzicanin than the handcrafted woolens hanging from his shop front. "I've been on this corner 64 years," he says, "since I was a boy of seven with my father. We have never seen the prosperity that we have here...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, who had been trying to stall action on the farm-aid legislation, gave in and let it come to a vote. Eight Republican Senators, seven of them from the farm belt, broke ranks and joined the Democrats in approving $1.85 billion in additional loan guarantees to farmers, plus $100 million to help banks reduce interest rates for farmers in trouble. In a second, closer vote, the Senate agreed to advance farmers 50% of the price-support loans they normally get in the fall, after crops are harvested. An infuriated Pete Domenici of New Mexico, chairman...
...while the plane cruised at 41,000 ft. This mechanism keeps aircraft on a safe course at high altitudes, where the human eye cannot judge the angle of flight. But while a plane is operating under the system, even small variations in speed or flight angle can cause a stall or nose dive. A key question is whether Ming overrode the system while making his descent. Federal investigators will continue inspecting the aircraft and interviewing passengers and crew members for several weeks...