Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rules Committee putting controversial bills in his pocket and going off to a Virginia farm, the way Congressman Howard Smith used to do in the '40s and '50s - "I have an old sow that just loves to have her ear scratched. I've got to tend her now and then...
...some particular person who happens to work at the White House, and who may or may not be calling with the President's authorization. The bigger the staff, the greater the likelihood that this will be abused - and also the more internal rivalries, jealousies and feuds, which tend to expand as the little empires expand...
Reagan advisers and political analysts tend to agree that Bush's nomination represents a triumph of electoral logic over sentiment. (Bush was chosen, for instance, over Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), a close friend and ideological cohort of Reagan whose selection would have put two conservative Westerners on the ticket.) A Texas oil industry, Bush has the advantage of a split geographical background. While a presidential candidate, he won six primaries--including those in the key states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Michigan--and is being counted on to help Reagan in those areas where the former California governor is weakest...
...impossible to stay within the 4-per cent ceiling on local budget increases mandated by the state to reduce inflation; lowering that ceiling to 2 1/2 per cent and eliminating exemptions would decimate city services. Moreover, the tax cut would be weighted against renters. Older, poorer cities--which tend to have the highest property taxes--would suffer the most...
Once they have made a decision, both Carter and Reagan tend to consider the matter solved. Rather than wheel, deal and fight to put their solutions into effect, each likes to move on to the next problem. Washington does not work that way. Carter shows signs of having learned this lesson; Reagan would have to change his one-step-at-a-time habits to be effective in the Oval Office...