Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After enough of these aggravating situations, however, Congressmen might begin to wise up. Realizing that the President might eliminate substantial portions of their compromises, they might then refuse to pass a budget at all, unless the President agrees beforehand not to cut certain items. It happened in 1983 in California, a state where the governor has a line-item veto. And the results were not exactly ideal: deadlock and delay which left state employees going unpaid for two and a half weeks...
...glad to be here," he told a press conference in Washington's National Presbyterian Church and Center, his wife Carol by his side. As relatives of the six Americans still held hostage in the Middle East watched, the former missionary then delivered a grim message from his erstwhile jailers: unless the Reagan Administration pressures Kuwait to release 17 terrorists convicted of seven bombings in December 1983, the remaining Americans may be executed and more U.S. citizens kidnaped...
...gulf region: "First and foremost, this netback scheme is a warning to OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers that they must all take coordinated action or the Saudis will go further." As if in confirmation, Yamani warned that a ruinous price war could develop by next spring unless OPEC members stuck to official quota and price agreements and other producers restricted their output...
...partly remedied that next day at a press conference, where he suggested fewer Soviets be allowed in the West. "We have to bear in mind," he said, "that the Soviets don't send people to countries like the U.S. unless they are fully equipped, fully trained and either part of the KGB or might just as well be." Weinberger endorsed Perle's view that the number of Soviet officials in the U.S. should be no greater than the number of Americans in the U.S.S.R. (Right now the Soviets have nearly four times as many, 980 to 260.) Weinberger also defended...
Despite yesterday's turmoil, today's weather is expected to be sunny with temperatures in the high 70s, and 12- to 18-knot winds from the northwest. The UMass football game will be played as scheduled, "unless UMass can't get through to Cambridge," said Athletic Director John P. Reardon...