Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with such unpleasant responsibilities, what did Washington do? Once again, it lost itself in a politically irresistible orgy of tax reduction. By voting to fulfill George Bush's campaign promise and cut capital-gains taxes, House Republicans and renegade Democrats jumped at a short-term boost in revenues against a long-term loss. The giveaway fractured the foundation of the landmark 1986 tax-reform law. The drain on the Treasury could be compounded when the measure reaches the Senate, where it is expected to pass, and Democrats try to extend the tax breaks on individual retirement accounts. It seemed...
Election issues this term range from the council's fiscal management to the housing lottery for first-year students...
...biggest task facing the new director will be to implement all the provisions of the contract which HUCTW and the University expect to complete in the next few weeks. Contract provisions include a new short-term disability leave plan, changes in the pension plan and an elaborate system for coping with employee grievances...
...beyond the day-to-day business of the nation's highest court, the nine justices are looking ahead to a term in which they have agreed to decide thorny right-of-privacy arguments in three abortion disputes and their first "right-to-die" controversy...
Last year's court term was perhaps the most publicized in decades, as the conservative court turned to abortion and civil rights issues which have not been substantially changed since an activist, liberal court of the 1960s and 1970s first ruled on their constitutionality...