Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a short recess, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci proposed an order to correct the differences in past evaluations by exempting certain property owners from rent control...
...motion as phrased might very well take into account a very large number of units," Duehay said in an interview. He and Councillor David E. Sullivan called the order too broad because it would apply to an unlimited number of units...
Sullivan also charter-righted an order about the language of rent control legislation and a home-rule petition to the Senate and House of Representatives...
...Administration aides spoke of considerable "arm twisting" by Bush, Cheney's turnabout reflected political and budgetary realities more than a major rethinking of U.S. defense needs. Faced with a lingering $110 billion deficit, Congress long ago abandoned Pentagon plans to increase defense spending each year. Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine, the Air Force...
...foreign policy is prudent. Yet Bush has come a long way in his thinking about the Soviet Union. In a matter of months, his Administration has gone from viewing Gorbachev as a slickly disguised variant of the old red menace to a potential partner in creating a new world order...