Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judge Morton Needelman was not impressed. He noted that Knight-Ridder, one of the country's richest and most distinguished newspaper chains, had invested tens of millions of dollars in the Free Press and had never before folded any of its papers. Thus, Needelman concluded, "I have assigned little weight to this threat." But last week, less than a month after Needelman issued his report to Attorney General Edwin Meese recommending against the controversial J.O.A., Chapman pursued his threat further. Emerging from a Detroit meeting of the 17-member Knight-Ridder board, he solemnly announced that the 157-year...
...Congress refuses to go along, since the reform would strip power from the Legislative Branch and hand it to the Executive. But recent events have conspired to give the idea some weight. The Oct. 19 stock-market crash shocked Washington into the realization that the U.S. economy will not be able to endure continuing federal deficits of $170 billion or more. Then Government's budget "summiteers," after much agonizing, produced a puny two-year, $76 billion deficit reduction package. Just before Christmas, Congress presented the President with a $603.9 billion spending bill for fiscal year 1988. The 2,100-page...
...balance the budget by 1992, but his numbers include $45 billion in savings from a drop in unemployment and $30 billion to $40 billion recovered through a decline in interest rates. "It's like telling people you can have a diet of hot-fudge sundaes and still lose weight," insists Carol Cox, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Take long-term interest rates. They are set by market forces that weigh, in part, the seriousness of the federal commitment to deficit reduction. Putting it bluntly, the surest way to drive up interest rates would...
Even before the first 1988 primary vote, there is talk about the need for further change. Surprisingly, some Iowans also sense a new turn of the wheel. Says George Wittgraf, director of the Bush Iowa campaign: "This is too much weight to be on the shoulders of one state. I don't think Iowa will ever again be as important as it is in 1988." There are signs of candidates' trying new strategies: Albert Gore is holding back until the Super Tuesday races in the South; Cuomo is sitting on the sidelines and refusing to rule out a late entry...
...more serious than having a good time. Major American talent like Bruce Springsteen often carries a big thematic stick, but Britpoppers wield a club -- a nightclub where the solipsism of Thatcher's England is chilled out, prettied up and danced to till dawn. If you have the world's weight on your shoulders, after all, you can't shake your booty...