Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...confront those problems, President Bush should pursue a two-pronged strategy. First, he must challenge the Hookes/Kennedy agenda of affirmative action, racial set-asides and endless litigation by vetoing the Civil Rights Act of 1990. He must then outline a coherent plan to empower the nation's disadvantaged through education vouchers, tenant management of public housing, tougher law enforcement, child care and other initiatives. Initially, no doubt, he will face a storm of protest from entrenched civil rights groups, but in the long run Bush may well be remembered as the Empowerment President...
...track. Budget Director Richard Darman and congressional leaders had made some progress in bargaining sessions that started Sept. 7. But the negotiations bogged down before the speech. So instead of making a triumphant announcement, Bush used his prime-time pulpit to sermonize: "Most Americans are sick and tired of endless battles in the Congress and between the branches over budget matters. It is high time we pull together and get the job done right...
...other is a King known for caution bordering on indecision and endless consultations before taking any action. His fiscal prudence is so extreme that he once became tearful on television while confessing that he could not balance his country's budget. He has for years conducted an exquisite balancing act among factions in his royal family, between the West and the Arab world, between the tug toward high-tech modernization and the impulse to preserve the semifeudal culture of his kingdom...
...East and West coasts. But construction plans have been stalled by environmental opposition -- ironic considering the good safety record of the transmission companies -- as well as the lumbering federal bureaucracy. Complains Theodore Eck, chief economist of Amoco, owner of the largest U.S. natural-gas reserves: "The endless hearings and harassment and bureaucratic red tape are excessive...
...Mathers believes, land governs almost everything else. "You work with the land," he says. "You can't work against it." The big sky does not intimidate him; it entices him. Mathers is undaunted by solitude or the prospect of tiny clusters of civilization tied by the endless reaches of shortgrass in the 10 states between the Rockies and the 98th meridian. The Great Plains form one-fifth of the land mass of the lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered...