Word: turkeys
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...outbursts against the West, Papandreou's sallies have largely proved to be grandstanding. In the main, they have been the product of the historic enmity between Greece and Turkey, a fellow NATO member. That confrontation intensified after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in which Greeks are the ethnic majority. During Papandreou's tenure, the two countries have failed to resolve long-standing disputes over air and sea jurisdiction around Greek islands off Turkey's Aegean coast, as well as over the 1983 declaration of independence by Turkish Cypriots in the zone under their control...
Most Greeks join Papandreou in decrying what they consider a U.S. tilt toward Turkey as a strategically more important NATO partner. Nonetheless, following his 1981 election, the Prime Minister failed to follow through on earlier threats to pull Greece out of NATO and the European Community. Moreover, despite his continued opposition to the presence of U.S. bases, Papandreou negotiated a five-year renewal of the leases in 1983. Says an adviser at NATO headquarters in Brussels: "By his standards, at least, he has been less extreme. We're hoping everyone will give him the benefit of the doubt...
...responsibilities, in some cases it is forcing them to do so by reducing federal programs. Says Brookings Institution Tax Specialist Henry Aaron: "In an atmosphere where specific expenditure programs are getting cut, it is a little hard on the states to say we are also going to go cold turkey next year on denying deductibility." Norman Beckman, director of the Council of State Governments, referring to the 1978 California tax-cutting measure that hit many city and county governments hard, warned that loss of deductibility would have "a Proposition 13 type effect nationally...
...been waitressing 40 years, 20 of them in this truck stop. As she talks she polishes the stainless steel, fills mustard jars, adds the menu inserts for today's special (hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, pot of coffee...
Persuading Congress to adopt tax reform is not unlike treating addiction. ( Congressmen have become so dependent on trading tax breaks for political favors from special interest groups that the only way they can stop now is to go cold turkey. For a Congressman to say he can make an exception for one lobbyist but not another is like an alcoholic swearing he can take just one drink...