Word: plan
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...drop from the budget of a middle-class dream: cable TV, designer coffee, a winter vacation, credit cards. In the boom years of the decade, when no excess was too wretched, household debt grew about 50% faster than disposable income. "I really try to get us on a savings plan," says Sarah Frazier, who lives with her husband Richard in Idyllwild, Calif. "We want to start a family someday, and it's getting harder and harder with food prices, car loans, interest payments and utilities. Just when you think you have a grasp on things, something changes...
...groups. All 15 Soviet republics have declared sovereignty, and so have regions and even cities within republics, producing a state of near anarchy. Gorbachev lost his best and perhaps his last chance to remain the leader of the reformists in October when he backed away from a 500-Day Plan for radical economic reform that had been worked out with Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, his chief domestic rival. When Gorbachev substituted a watered-down plan, Yeltsin rejected it with contempt. Though Gorbachev talked the Supreme Soviet into giving him the power to rule virtually by decree, the republics declared...
...average for the general population these days. Federal dietary guidelines recommend reducing fat to no more than 30% of calories. In particular, people are urged to eat less red meat and more main courses lower in fat, such as chicken and fish. The merits of such a plan were borne out in the Harvard study: the more poultry and fish in the nurses' diet, the lower their chances of getting colon cancer. Women who consumed skinless chicken two or more times a week had half the risk of those who ate it less than once a month. "The less...
...prepared to spend the weekend in jail while awaiting a bail hearing, Bruce Cutler, his longtime lawyer, complained that his client was the victim of a government "vendetta." With police locking Gotti up "every 10 to 12 months," protested Cutler, he was serving a life term "on the installment plan" even though he had not been convicted. The vendetta complaint was an exaggeration. But Assistant U.S. Attorney John Gleeson, who will prosecute the case, has been working full-time for five years to get Gotti...
Bennett then signaled his eagerness to engage the Democrats on the issue if they pressed anew for the civil rights bill. They will; Senator Edward Kennedy and the other leading sponsors plan to reintroduce the measure early in 1991. Bennett was accurately assumed to be speaking for the White House. Thus the near universal belief that the Bush forces were sculpting a new version of Willie Horton, the black killer used in 1988 as a symbol of liberals' softness on crime...