Word: still
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storm-shattered survivors of Hurricane Hugo, the simplest necessities were sorely missed: thousands were still without water or electricity. Residents from St. Croix, V.I., to Charlotte, N.C., found their businesses blown away, their houses flattened, their jobs gone. Losses were running as high as $3 billion just in South Carolina, where 70,000 people remained homeless and 224,000 were out of work. The state's top industry, tourism, may take years to recover. Timber, its third-ranking income source, took a $1 billion blow, as more than a third of South Carolina's forests fell to Hugo's winds...
President Bush never accepted that argument; he still believes that the tax code should promote social and economic goals. He told reporters last week, "I supported the tax-reform law, but in last year's campaign there were one or two areas where I felt that we needed to use the tax system to achieve various ends." Democratic leaders too have lost the faith; their proposed expansion of IRAs would also violate the no-special-breaks principle. Consequently, Congress can expect a flood of demands from other taxpayers who will claim that their income deserves special treatment. Writing...
Bush won some respect for attaching his prestige to the knotty education issue, but many Governors are still waiting to see whether the President will make the tough choices necessary to establish education as a genuine priority. Some wonder, for example, why he retains the so far ineffectual Lauro Cavazos as Education Secretary. They also wonder why a self-proclaimed education President would propose, in effect, to cut federal education spending $400 million, adjusted for inflation...
Over the next few weeks she visited their house, saw the baby's room. There were phone calls and counseling sessions at the Independent Adoption Center in Pleasant Hill, Calif. In the private conference room there, Nicole felt happy with her choice. Still there were some delicate points to resolve...
...know," replied Nicole, with her eyes down. "That's still vague with...