Word: wirth
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Several of Hart's allies have turned with similar zeal to the mishandling of America's economic problems. Bradley and Wirth, for example, are in the forefront of the move toward targeted tax cuts--as opposed to President Reagan's across-the-board reduction, which they view as inflationary and fiscally irresponsible. Selective cuts, they argue convincingly, will benefit ailing industrial cities in the Northeast and Midwest by encouraging the development of software, communications, and energy businesses...
...their manifesto Sen. Paul Tsongas's The Road From Here and point to Sen. Gary Hart as a possible standard-bearer in the 1984 presidential race. These two youthful and appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy weights from academe and high finance--MIT economist Lester Thurow and New York investment banker Felix Rohatyn for example--are beginning to exert a strong influence on the thinking of the Democratic party...
Mark Cooley also lost a close-one, suffering a last moment takedown at the hands of Bob Wirth in the 177 Ib, class. In the unlimited the weight match. Jim Phills could have tied the meet with a pin over Bob Suren in the final match. Phills fought to an overpowering victory over Suren, but failed to score the requisite fall. Phills did, in fact, pin Suren, but he did so the buzzer sounded, negating the pin and turning the Crimson dream into a nightmare...
...future, it will cost you $100 to have the telephone repairman come to your home." Most likely to suffer are people in rural areas, where telephone equipment is often aging and the number of subscribers is low. To prevent a runaway surge in local costs and fees, Congressman Wirth proposes establishing a national telecommunications fund. The fund would use surcharges on long-distance calls to help offset the cost of maintaining local service...
...calls "cults." He helps harangue them out of their new beliefs through "deprogramming." Mostly they have been enthralled by the likes of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon or the Hare Krishnas. Patrick has also processed a woman whose mother opposed her impending marriage and-just this year-Susan Wirth, 35, a San Francisco college teacher whose mother wanted to wean her away from far-left politics...