Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pledged to hold the federal deficit for fiscal 1979 to the $61 billion he has budgeted ("as large as we can afford") and to veto any bills that threaten a deeper bath in red ink. He warned that bills now being seriously considered by congressional committees might push the deficit $9 billion to $13 billion above target...
...resulting tensions come out looking like a religious conflict. In fact, the conflict is ideological, not religious. The political status quo in Africa, like that in any other part of the world, requires religious legitimation. If the churches threaten to withhold it, one or both of two things happen. Either the more out-spoken church leaders are removed (sometimes by assassination, as in the case of Archbishop Luwum of Uganda) or the political system actively encourages the coming to prominence of a traditional religious cult, such as in Kenya in 1969, Chad in 1974, Equitorial Guinea in 1976, and Madagascar...
...will is notably absent during election year, since any attack on inflation would hit at the privileges of specific interest groups, who threaten their fearsome counterattacks at the polls. But perhaps some politicians would be brave enough, and wise enough, to advocate steps that would earn the outrage of specific interests in the short run but gain the support of the inflation-strained majority over the longer haul. Among the steps that, taken together, could cut inflation...
...farm bill is only one, though the most egregious example of spending bills that threaten to swell the federal deficit next fiscal year beyond the already frightening $60 billion that Carter had budgeted. Connecticut Democrat Robert Giaimo, head of the House Budget Committee, figures that it could rise as high as $70 billion. Consequently, the memorandum presented to Carter urges him to pledge publicly that he will hold the deficit to $60 billion and at least implicitly threaten to veto big-spending bills. Says one high economic adviser: "If we go above $60 billion, the stock market will be affected...
...cast is frenzied. During much of the movie McIntyre is surrounded by a ceaseless maelstrom of auditioners, producers and record company executives. Freed is portrayed as the eye of the hurricane that was rock. The teenagers at the rock show are so lively the police--the bad guys--threaten to stop the show--which leads to The Line of this movie--"You can stop the show, but you can't stop rock and roll," which McIntyre delivers with all the passion he is ever able to muster...