Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways to fit the bold fashion of this decade's foundations. "What really scares me," says Historian Smith, "is that the center is in trouble. These new tanks are not looking as far ahead as these organizations did in the past. What's really in trouble is the long-term research and planning that gave our politics their pragmatic quality...
...Citizens for Tax Justice, a labor-backed group, had just released a list of 128 major corporations that had recently paid no taxes at all, fanning public indignation. The White House was searching for a bold domestic initiative to begin Reagan's second term. Tax reform won partly by default. The President's political advisers thought it might become the "realigning issue" that would give the Republicans a permanent majority in the country by proving to voters that the G.O.P. was for the common man. (So many Democrats eventually shaped the bill that this idea has disappeared...
...loneliness of the White House and come to the Willard, which offered him a leather chair in a secluded place in the lobby where he could watch the passing show. Even then he was pestered by people with petitions and pleas. He called these intruders "lobbyists," and the term stuck...
Several leasing companies, like Miami's Aviation Sales, specialize in short-term agreements that allow customers to bail out in five years if necessary. In contrast, the granddaddy of the industry, a subsidiary of General Electric called GE Credit, has traditionally signed leases of up to 20 years. James Ozanne, a GE Credit senior vice president, warns that middlemen who peddle short-term leases could eventually become saddled with aging aircraft that cannot be resold. Nonetheless, Ozanne admits, the boom in short- term renting has spurred GE Credit (1985 revenues: $2.9 billion) to begin offering five-year leases...
...transport of South Africa and its black neighbors have been closely interwoven. In fact, as Pik Botha was quick to emphasize, even while Mugabe was speaking out against Pretoria at the London meeting, Zimbabwe was negotiating to extend its existing trade agreement with South Africa. Over the long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa...