Word: omnibus
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...from Ilopango and Aguacate air base in Honduras. The contras reportedly bought the equipment and paid the crews in part with private funds and money borrowed from American and other banks, using as collateral a $100 million aid package that Congress released late last week as part of its omnibus 1987 spending bill...
...omnibus bill is filled with wrinkles, like a complicated "minimum tax" procedure for corporations that previously paid little or no taxes, and dizzying "transitional rules" designed to ease many businesses into the new regime. Fretted Manhattan Economist Alan Greenspan: "I don't think we yet understand how complex this is." As Aaron put it: "You will discover hardships, provisions that don't work the way that you want them to, tax liabilities that Congress would conclude it didn't want to impose. In some cases, the lawmakers will want to back off." If that is so, the tax reform bill...
...readers realize how much effort is devoted to meshing the disparate tongues of journalese and English. In journalese, for example, the word chilling is an omnibus adjective modifying "scenario" in nuclear-weapons stories, "evidence" and "reminder" in crime stories and "effect" in any story on threats to the First Amendment. In English it is merely something one does with white wine. Reforms and changes can only be "sweeping" and investigations "widening," especially on days when the investigators have no actual news to report. "Mounting" is always followed by pressures or deficits. All arrays are "bewildering," whereas all contrasts are either...
...considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches as violinists serenading customers as they climb stairs to the dining room. Nevertheless, Manhattan's Maxim's is merely a model; Cardin is planning a series of casual eateries called L'Omnibus de Maxim's, after the cafe L'Omnibus already operating in New York, and a chain of Maxim's Suite Hotels. The first is soon to open in Palm Springs. Says Monty Zullo, general manager of Maxim's American operations: "All along the line, plans involve the same trading...
...Asian nations are particularly alarmed by the thunder of trade-war drums in Washington. In May, the House of Representatives passed an omnibus 458-page trade bill that would require the President to open trade talks with any nation that achieved an "excessive trade surplus" with the U.S. through vaguely defined unfair practices. The aim of the talks would be to reduce the trade imbalance 10% annually in such a case. If no agreement was reached, the White House would have to retaliate, for example, by raising tariffs or tightening import quotas. Clearly aimed at such countries as Japan...