Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Equally important, in the furious view of the losing Democrats, Reagan had taken a serious stride toward that old congressional bugaboo, the "Imperial Presidency." Reagan raised that fear by getting the House to substitute budget proposals drafted by Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman for those worked out by its own committees. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill after the vote: "I've never seen anything like this. Does this mean that any time the President is interested in a piece of legislation, he merely sends it over?" Last week at least, the answer seemed...
...Outlook: A deep, strong club, but the bugaboo may be youth. "That's the thing we lack, experience," Nahigian says. "We've started to cut down on our mental errors, and, right now, I feel we're a solid ball club. We'll find out this weekend just how good...