Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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-- Second, some decent people are working on the problem. One of them is William Seidman, the chief U.S. banking regulator, who has generally been frank and realistic in trying to handle the mess -- too frank and realistic for President Bush, who aims to replace him with William Taylor, a low...
Until last week the assistance seemed likely to be held up still further by a dispute about -- of all irrelevant subjects -- abortion. The Senate had added to the omnibus bill a provision permitting the District of Columbia to use local public money to fund abortions, despite warnings that it would...
Such confusion and delay are all too characteristic of the whole U.S. foreign-aid program. Parsimony as well: Bush's request of $14.6 billion for fiscal 1990, which began Oct. 1, is only $1.5 billion higher than the $13.1 billion spent nine years ago. Moreover, nearly half of all aid...
IRCA was also supposed to increase the ranks of border-patrol agents within the INS to as many as 6,000. Congress never provided the funding, however, and today's 3,800 agents are overworked and demoralized. INS agents are now up in arms over a proposed reorganization scheme that...
Bush recognizes that the rapid pace of events will later lead to even deeper troop cuts on both sides. Soviet forces are not capable of launching a surprise invasion of Western Europe now that their allies in the Warsaw Pact have declared independence and the U.S.S.R.'s military effectiveness has...