Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next step will be to incorporate the first-year provisions of his plan into a 1986 budget message, due for delivery to Congress early next year. The budget's fate will then be thrashed out in congressional hearings and committee meetings that will drag on into the summer, with results that are anything but predictable. The Reaganauts plan to win the Senate's cooperation and then "go to the people" if the House balks at their cuts...
Even before the 28,000 teachers walked out, the schools had plenty of problems. Many are physically crumbling, and this year the capital-improvements budget is just 7.5% of what it was a decade ago. Former Superintendent Ruth Love, dismissed last summer, is suing the school board, claiming it ousted her unfairly. The board, for its part, is suing the Federal Government for funds to under write a desegregation program...
Federal Express, though, now faces hungry competitors who have turned the business into a delivery-truck version of Cannonball Run. The battle pushed down Federal's average price for an overnight shipment from $26.29 in 1981 to $19.36 this summer. Many of the rivals have copied Federal's formula. In 1981, Emery built a $60 million hub in Dayton and assembled a fleet of 67 planes. Airborne constructed its hub at an abandoned Strategic Air Command base in Wilmington, Ohio. The U.S. Postal Service has entered the field with its special $9.35 express mail service. In fiscal...
When Tory Leader Brian Mulroney campaigned for election last summer, he promised voters that his party would curb Canada's nationalistic economic policies and open the way for more foreign investment. Now he is keeping that pledge. Last week Prime Minister Mulroney's government introduced a bill in Parliament that would reshape the Foreign Investment Review Agency set up by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...young Turkish sponge diver from a small Mediterranean village described some curious objects he had spotted lying near a sunken shipwreck. When George Bass, a nautical archaeologist who had been rummaging around the floors of the Mediterranean coast for 25 years, heard that description in the summer of 1982, he thought-he hoped-that he might be on to something...