Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GROWING UP near the Florida panhandle, meant the inevitable spring break pilgrimage to Destin beach. Around this time every year, the diets began. Bananas only the first day; then strawberries the next, then apples the next. But at the beach, you could finally drink and eat potato chips--unless it started showing--and fast for the next day until your stomach was flat...
...State Department must also try to convince other countries not to give Duvalier asylum unless he returns the hundreds of millions of dollars he stole from the people of Haiti...
Such a proposal contains deep political peril. Conventional Washington wisdom holds that it is impossible to raise taxes or cut Social Security unless the congressional leaders of both parties, as well as the President, are actively in support. What is more, there is little time to act. Under the rigid timetables set by Gramm-Rudman, Congress cannot afford, in its usual fashion, to dither all year long over the budget. If lawmakers fail to pass a budget, the automatic cuts will kick in on Oct. 1. Says Democratic Senator Don Riegle of Michigan: "Congress has never, ever, met a timetable...
House Democratic leaders are equally wary of sitting down to a budget summit with the G.O.P. unless the White House clearly takes the lead. If there are to be big cuts in domestic programs, says an aide to Speaker O'Neill, "we want those cuts to carry a big sign saying 'Reagan...
Given that yawning gap between haves and have-nots, political ferment was inevitable. The U.S., which provided $54 million in aid to Haiti in 1985, warned Duvalier that future payments would be jeopardized unless he improved the country's human rights record...