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With so many Republicans expressing skepticism, it hardly seemed surprising that most Democrats reacted with outright hostility. "He spoke of fairness," said House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "but insisted on retaining the third year of his unfair tax program and insisted on protecting the defense industry from the same level of austerity that he wants to impose on domestic programs." Indeed, if there was any bipartisan spirit, it was one of shared displeasure over the centerpiece of Reagan's State of the Union address: the budget he has submitted for fiscal 1984, which begins next October (see following...
Both proposals sought to end a more than two-and-one-half-year debate on what type of development should be allowed in the Cambridgeport Industrial District, located in the southern tip of the city...
...chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduces a bill entitled S.1 this week, he will be the first of a phalanx of blockers trying to mow down obstacles to congressional approval of a $168 billion Social Security compromise package. With the bipartisan blessings of President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the National Commission on Social Security Reform hammered together the agreement hours short of its Jan. 15 deadline. The commission's success, after months of deadlock, may have saved the entire Social Security issue from becoming fatally ensnared in a ferocious wrangle on Capitol Hill. Even...
Florida's Everglades, a unique mixture of rain forest, wildlife refuge and the world's largest cultivated organic soil bed, stretches 100 miles from Lake Okeechobee in the north to Florida Bay at the state's southern tip. Once the marshland measured an average 45 miles in width; today it extends 35 miles. Little of the land is in its pristine state. Huge tracts have been drained for agricultural and residential development, and thousands of miles of man-made canals have diverted the water from natural channels. Even much of the 62% of land lying within...
...there were a bar in Boston called Cheers, and if it were anything like the one in NBC's new sitcom of the same name, it would be just the sort of hangout where Democratic Congressman Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr., 70, might down a brew at the end of a rough day. After hearing that he thought so too, the producers invited O'Neill to tape a cameo appearance. For his TV acting debut, if one doesn't count the House's televised debates, O'Neill is hunched over the bar when...