Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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House leaders wanted to charge the $50 billion first-year cost of the program to the federal budget. President Bush had threatened to veto the legislation unless Congress agreed to keep most of the outlay off budget, a plan that Nebraska Senator James Exon called a "continuing grand scheme to fool the American taxpayer ((about)) the real cost of the bailout." Near midnight on Friday, Congress approved a compromise worked out with the White House in which only $20 billion of the program's costs will be charged to the budget. The Government will issue special 30-year bonds...
...unless the Contras disarm voluntarily, the United Nations reportedly would not be willing to play a role in the implementation of the accords, according to unnamed sources...
...whenever the President (or a Soviet leader) hops an airplane. Network executives gamely defend such trips on journalistic grounds, but they are primarily promotional gimmicks meant to showcase the network's resident Bigfoot. "We're almost defining news in such a way as to say something's not important unless an anchor is there," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "That's regrettable. Sometimes the specialists on a particular subject ought to be the ones dominating the coverage, not the anchors, who are by definition generalists...
...Unless Bloch confesses, the U.S. may never learn his motives or how much damage he may have done. And so far he has held his own remarkably well against the mass-media version of the third degree...
BEIRUT--The pro-Iranian group holding Joseph J. Cicippio said yesterday it would spare his life temporarily but indicated that the American still could be killed "within days" unless Israel met new, tougher terms...