Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital is likely to keep interest rates high. The latest economic indicators, which for two straight months had pointed toward a possible recovery, turned ominously flat. Worse yet, the painfully constructed underpinnings of Ronald Reagan's fragile 1983 bipartisan budget deal were in danger of falling to the wrecker's ball. The bickering between congressional Democrats and Republicans and between leaders of both parties and the President threatened to defeat a much needed tax increase and permit passage of budget-breaking bills. If those two events occurred, the whole budget process could come tumbling down...
...other 10%, that feisty minority vows to save the neighborhood from the wrecker's ball. Yet even if Poletown were saved, the community would never flourish as it did a generation ago. Concedes Henry Michalski, a Poletown Neighborhood Council supporter: "Over the long term, the place would continue to deteriorate because the old people will die off and the young people have moved off." For many residents, however, Poletown remains very much home, and the shock of being so hastily asked to move out has honed their resistance. "The plant project had a note of finality to it from...
...surprisingly, house hunters turned to the city's 800 empty buildings, most of them awaiting the wrecker's ball. About 2,000 squatters have moved into 120 such structures, many of them in the city's old Kreuzberg district. At first, comparatively sympathetic police looked the other way, more or less leaving the squatters alone. But the settlement situation turned acrimonious last December when police, ordered by judges to enforce property rights of landlords, raided a squatters' building in Kreuzberg. Violent protests flared. Three consecutive weekends of street battles left 150 demonstrators and 100 police injured...
...personal command of the government, though he had originally said he would not, apparently because he decided no one else could be trusted to carry out God's will. Another Iranian ayatullah has observed that Khomeini, because of his long career in opposition to the Shah, is "a good wrecker but a bad builder...