Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stretch far enough to see another boom, or even a boomlet. What he sees is a budget deficit of $882 million and diminished prospects for the state's heretofore pampered citizens. A man who favors cowboy boots and long silences, Cowper says sardonically, "It's a four-year term unless they burn me out of the mansion." Cowper idly contemplates that unhappy prospect because after he decided to run for office, first oil prices, then Alaska, went bust...
...linked to high name recognition, and Joseph Grandmaison, a veteran New Hampshire party organizer, says voters there may view Dukakis more as an admired neighbor than as a would-be President. Even if Dukakis does well in the Granite State, he will be dismissed as a regional favorite son unless he then holds his own in the Southern primaries...
...that Pakistan has not yet manufactured enriched uranium -- an assertion that is doubted by some observers, including U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Deane R. Hinton. Indeed, Zia seemed to imply that Pakistan could produce a bomb within a month, a deadline that most scientists consider would be difficult to meet unless weapons-grade uranium was on hand (see interview...
...charges,* he has earned a dubious renown for becoming the first former Government official to face charges resulting from an independent counsel's efforts. That distinction has palpable consequences: the indictment means the Federal Government will not reimburse Deaver for his staggering legal costs, now more than $500,000, unless his lawyers sue to recover them in the event that the charges are dismissed...
Another group of kidnappers, the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization, has threatened to kill French hostage Jean-Louis Normandin, 35, unless France clarifies its policy on terrorism and arms shipments to Iraq. Iran and Iraq have been at war since September...