Word: makeing
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...summiteers' only significant achievement so far was to agree in July on a deficit-reduction target of $50 billion. But the fallout from the Middle East conflict has made that goal obsolete. It will be more difficult to make large cuts in defense spending (the Persian Gulf buildup alone is costing $46 million a day), and rising fuel costs have rendered one new source of revenue, an energy tax, politically unpalatable. As a result, both sides agree, the most that the deficit can be cut is $30 billion to $40 billion. They are thus more likely to reach for stopgap...
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney flatly dismissed the Mohawks' claims to sovereignty as "unrealistic" and "bizarre." The federal government said it was prepared to negotiate agreements that would give the Indians greater control over their affairs, but balked at attempts to make the Mohawks exempt from Canadian...
BERLIOZ: LES NUITS D'ETE; MAHLER: SONGS (Bridge). The great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani's last recording renders almost palpable the feelings of yearning and fleeting gaiety, along with the elegiac beauty, that make these songs, and her art, imperishable...
MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, Sept. 8, 10 p.m. EDT). There he is, Mr. Miss America. Bert Parks, who got dumped as the pageant's longtime host in 1979, will make a return appearance this year to serenade a bevy of former winners...
Maybe the chest in my office did make that first voyage with my grandfather, but perhaps it came later. F.H. made three round trips to Denmark and back after he settled in Michigan, once to find a likely bride, Christine Sandberg, then to bring her to the U.S., and finally, after their five children were born, to give his wife one last look at home. One of the hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed...