Word: furlough
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...relics. But doubters may recall that he re-made his game once before, when he added a big serve in 1978 after he had won Wimbledon a couple of times. Tennis comebacks aren't unknown; John McEnroe, 32, who was one of the reasons Borg burned out, took a furlough from the game for several months in '86, came back, left again in '87, came back once more, and last fall reached the semi-finals of the U.S. Open...
Weld's education budget proposal includes increased tuition demands on students and a furlough plan which will force many professors to work without...
Most cynical of all was Atwater's constant harping on Willie Horton, a Black convict who raped a woman while on a furlough from prison. Referring to Dukakis, Atwater said he would "strip the bark off the little bastard" and "make Willie Horton his running mate...
Americans got a reminder last week that some war zones are more lethal than others. After seven months in the Persian Gulf with a Patriot missile battery, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs, 22, won a two-week furlough. Back home less than 24 hours, Riggs was helping his wife load a car and rented van to move out of a crack-infested neighborhood in northeast Detroit to an apartment in the safer suburbs. Someone took a fancy to Riggs' 1989 Nissan Sentra, pumped five shots into the soldier and sped...
Moderate and conservative House Republicans began squabbling among themselves. The issue: whether to back a short-term plan to keep the government running until Oct. 19 or to allow mandatory spending cuts to take effect, which would have forced the furlough of thousands of government employees. (Congressional Democrats settled the argument by passing the interim arrangement with the aid of Senate Republicans.) The President compounded the confusion with daily shifts in his position on taxes. Democratic majorities on the appropriations committees began filling in the blanks of a vague plan to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years...