Word: truces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken to playing off one capricious clerical judge against another, while powerbrokers have simply taken the law into their own hands. After colliding in a scramble to seize private land, two government officials ended up drawing guns on each other in a courtroom last August. Having effected a shaky truce, the judge declared a 30-minute recess, left the room and never returned...
...cordial hostility, few relationships rival the unstable truce between Washington reporters, who chafe at having news doled out by the teaspoonful, and presidential press secretaries, who often view journalists as carping nihilists incapable of admitting they are wrong...
...public truce, though, did little to mask sharp differences between Regan and Feldstein or to ease fears that the Administration's economic policy is awry. Regan's ideas are very close to the President's original supply-side strategy, which was based on a strong reliance on the stimulative power of tax cuts. Regan believes that the growth generated by the President's tax-reduction program will boost Government revenues and take care of part of the deficit. To reduce the budget gap further, Regan argues, Congress must concentrate on slashing spending. He believes...
...while. Or so it would seem, judging from a preview of the major foreign policy address on the Soviet Union that President Reagan is scheduled to make early this week. Whatever the President might have said about the Kremlin in the past, he has decided to call a truce in the war of words that has sent superpower relations plummeting to the lowest point in two decades. Instead, Reagan intends to steer a course, in his words, of "credible deterrence and peaceful competition." As he planned to say in his speech: "Neither we nor the Soviet Union can wish away...
...truce seemed at hand later in October when the warring parties signed a one-year agreement that prohibited both sides from altering the status quo. But that accord lasted about as long as a cease-fire in Lebanon. During a Getty Oil board meeting in November, the directors asked Gordon to leave the room. While he was out, they decided to support a lawsuit challenging his position as sole head of the Sarah C. Getty Trust...