Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rental car in Colma, just off the San Andreas fault. As she opened one of the doors, the vehicle bounced up and down. "What's wrong with this car?" she asked. The rental agent shrugged and said, "I don't know." Then both watched a wave of undulating earth approach them from a graveyard at the bottom of a hill. It reminded her of the ghostly movie Alien...
Since it has produced a meat-cleaver approach to budget cutting, the Gramm- Rudman mechanism has itself become a target. Senator Ernest Hollings, one of the authors of the legislation, announced last week that he was ready for a "divorce" from the act. During Senate hearings on reforming the budget process, Budget Committee chairman Jim Sasser of Tennessee said, "Gramm- Rudman is teetering on the verge of becoming more a part of the problem than a part of the solution." Sasser says the law has the Government keeping two sets of books: one devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which...
...mechanistic approach like Gramm-Rudman is not the real solution to the budget deficit. Says Speaker Foley: "No amount of tinkering with the legislative process can substitute for a commitment to get spending under control. Some people look to procedural changes to get us out of our current mess. Will is what's required." There are no shortcuts on the road back to fiscal responsibility and economic health...
...Klerk speaks about a step-by-step process. Thus far he has permitted protests and released some political prisoners. Is this a reasonable approach...
...about group rights. That to us is still apartheid." Even so, black leaders do not want to pass up what could be an opportunity. They understand that De Klerk is not simply going to hand over the government and that a step-by-step process is the only realistic approach. "But if we were to say that publicly," one leader admits, "it would have a devastating effect on our movement. It could demobilize our people...