Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This winter's heavy snowfall is wreaking havoc on the Cambridge city budget, as cleanup costs have far surpassed expenses from previous years...
Clinton must convince voters like Meredith that his new spending proposals represent a different kind of government activism. The bill for his new "investment" and stimulus would amount to a four-year cost of $169 billion for new highways, summer jobs, environmental cleanup and other measures. Overall government spending would grow from $1.48 trillion in 1993 to $1.68 trillion in 1997. That is roughly the rate of current inflation and less than the average 6.4% growth of the Reagan-Bush presidencies. But that does not factor in the cost -- anywhere from $30 billion to $90 billion a year -- for extending...
...reason why the last election was known as a competition to be "the most powerful man in the world." Executive orders can range from sudden military incursions--like the bombing of Libya or sundry other targets outside our hemisphere--to a quick allotment of funds, perhaps for the cleanup of a Florida hurricane...
...fate of Lop, a captured Viet Cong captain, was a starkly dramatic moment in a nationwide battle that lasted 25 days and was fought in more than 100 cities, towns and military bases. Perhaps 37,000 South Vietnamese guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers died during Tet and subsequent cleanup operations. The losses of the American and Saigon-regime forces were about a tenth of that. Tet was a crushing defeat that practically annihilated the political and military capabilities of the Viet Cong. Yet the offensive marked the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement -- a disengagement freighted with national guilt...
...agency is in "excellent shape." But transition officials have some clear ideas about the general direction of reform. First, they want to root out the "true believers" from the Reagan-Bush years. Then they want to establish stronger central controls of department operations. A high priority is the cleanup of the Environmental Crimes section, which one transition official said is "highly politicized and not objectively enforcing...