Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bite remained uncertain. Fortunately, it went into effect on the Columbus Day weekend, giving Congress and the President three more days to strike an agreement before most government employees were due to report to work. On Friday evening, while congressional leaders scrambled to rejigger the deficit-cutting plan to make it more acceptable, the House overwhelmingly passed a short-term continuing resolution that would have funded government operations for a week. The measure was approved by a voice vote in the Senate hours later...
...Reductions in a variety of spending programs, military and civilian, along with increased fees for many services would make up the lion's share of deficit reduction. Pentagon spending would fall a total of $67 billion during the first three years, not counting the cost of the Persian Gulf operation. Farm supports would shrink by $13 billion, civil service pensions by $8 billion, guaranteed student loans by $2 billion, assistance to veterans by $2.7 billion. Jobless workers would have to wait two weeks before receiving unemployment compensation...
...even in baseball, the policy of equal access can and does work. Often when I was in locker rooms in the '70s, players would politely ask me to return in five minutes, after they had dressed. The point is, there are sensible ways to make this work for everybody, without making it impossible for women to report sports or humiliating those who choose to do so. Women in locker rooms should not be the issue in 1990. Rather, the finger ought to be pointed at the infantile and repugnant behavior of some ballplayers and their inability to adjust to changing...
...fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...
...Committee. Sensing a golden marketing opportunity, archrival Pepsi is suggesting to consumers in three losing cities -- Athens, Rome and Melbourne -- that they should register their displeasure at the checkout counter. In a newspaper advertisement in the Australian city, Pepsi declared, "If you don't like the I.O.C.'s choice, make your own." If this keeps up, the committee may have to introduce soda-can hurling as a gold-medal event...