Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...package that he said "errs on the side of prudence," Lawson announced a drop in the standard income tax rate, from 29% to 27%. By shrinking the government's borrowing plans from $11 billion to about $6.4 billion for the forthcoming fiscal year, Lawson predicted that mortgage and other interest rates would fall. And in an omission designed to appeal to working-class voters, the Conservatives held back additional taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline...
Such statements reflect a new confidence on the part of the Sandinista leadership. Until now it has been standard practice to downplay rebel attacks, so as not to enhance the contras' standing inside Nicaragua. The admissions that contra disruptions are taking place suggest the comandantes no longer feel intimidated either by the rebels or, for that matter, by the Reagan Administration. For years the comandantes steadfastly denied that they paid attention to Washington's every move. Now they are less bashful. President Ortega, for instance, candidly admits that he watches U.S. television newscasts daily, and has followed the Iran-contra...
protesters the police failed to follow "standard...
Jesse Jackson knew this three years ago. During a debate of Democratic hopefuls, he said: "I'd rather have Roosevelt in a wheel chair than Reagan on a horse." Jackson knew that President Reagan's health wasn't the standard by which to judge him. His failings as a leader stem from choices he makes knowingly, from nuances of style which he has adopted willingly and from a fascination with vague policy goals which he divorces from fact intentionally...
...that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between a "clear probability" and "well-founded fear...