Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THESE ARE NOT very opportune times to be looking for spare cash in the halls of Congress. The pro-registration forces on the House Appropriations Committee--that 54-member panel which recommends who gets what--originally thought they'd just tack the $13 million needed to register 19-and 20-year old men for the draft on to the federal budget. But the federal budget is having troubles of its own and so they changed their minds, reasoning that they'd just effect a transfer of sorts and move the needed cash from the Department of Defense...
...pressure on the public treasuries is such, she warns, that an increase in federal funds to private institutions is unlikely in the near future. Correspondingly, Hufstedler takes a pragmatic tack, revealing the common sense judgement her associates commend. "People want the federal role to increase all over the place when it comes to the matter of having federal funds that can be directed by the universities and colleges," she says. "In short, what a lot of people want is perfectly human--'please send me a check but no strings." Well, you can't have it both ways...
Harvard lawyers will ask the city's Rent Board for a removal permit within the next two weeks, a new tack in Harvard's 15-month-old attempt to evict tenants from 7 Sumner Rd. and use the building for Graduate School of Design office space...
...Rhineside residence and termed their meeting "extraordinarily useful," but obvious U.S.-West German differences remained. While Vance stressed at a press conference that the Soviets "must pay the cost flowing from the blatant invasion of a neighboring country," Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher took a very different tack. Said he: "We must do everything we can to avoid escalation, make a political solution of the problem possible, and pursue détente...