Word: welling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, when it comes to economic policy, the Administration appears to care little about deficit reduction. The White House seems to care only about keeping Bush's no-new-taxes pledge. Administration officials like to point to Darman's optimistic economic assumptions and deficit predictions as well as the relatively good business climate. Bush has not uttered a word about the budget deficit in weeks...
House Speaker Thomas Foley privately proposed dropping the hundreds of extraneous spending programs -- and the capital-gains cut -- from the budget- busting bill. But Darman turned down the offer, thinking he could get the kind of trimmed-down budget he preferred as well as the capital-gains cut. When it became clear the Administration would be charged with favoring capital gains over budget cutting, Darman relented. But by then it was too late to stop sequestration from taking effect...
...veteran examines a 20-year-old photograph of his graduating class. "The guy on my left is dead now," he notes. "So is the guy on my right. The three of us didn't fare too well in Viet Nam. I came out the best." He points with the hook that serves as his right hand...
...time we wind things up. He doesn't want to be forced to act. I told him to give us a few days. By the way, General Viktor is the man who took my fingerprints 26 years ago. I said to him, "I remember you. I know you very well. You charged us." He said, "Yes, I remember...
Like his colleagues in the A.N.C. and the Mass Democratic Movement, a coalition of antiapartheid organizations, Sisulu believed the government's nascent benevolence had been forced on it by domestic and international pressure as well as by its desire to avoid further economic sanctions. While no one from the government notified Sisulu's wife Albertina that he was to be released, De Klerk found time to telephone British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to tell her he was freeing a group of aging black leaders as she had urged him to do. Thatcher took that news with her to the Commonwealth...