Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...many American campuses. The Army has disclosed that because it is reducing its forces and will no longer need as many officers, it will shut down Reserve Officers Training Corps programs at 50 (out of 413) colleges and universities by summer of next year. The closings are expected to save $23 million a year...
...muster the courage to go to $19.91." So Walker introduced an amendment to reduce the $50 billion farm bill by 0.0000000002%. (That would, however, have cut $10 or so from the bill; his figure should have been 0.0000000004%.) By a 214-to-175 vote, the bid to save the taxpayers that trivial amount was defeated. So, as usual, were the taxpayers. It costs $480 a page to print the Congressional Record. Reporting the debate and vote on the Walker amendment consumed 3 1/2 pages...
...this year the moguls spent $55 million to send Tom Cruise around a racetrack in Days of Thunder, $65 million to launch Arnold Schwarzenegger into outer space for Total Recall, $70 million to help Bruce Willis save a besieged airport in Die Hard 2. The industry would pay any price, detonate any explosion, inflate any body count to meet its megahit expectations...
...Bush gets his way, Souter will follow the lead of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and refuse to take a firm stand on such a specific issue during confirmation hearings. If the Democrats settle for this non-answer, they would save the Senate from a bloody floor fight but would incur the wrath of pro-choice activists everywhere. This could be lethal for Democrats and pro-choice Republicans alike...
...national forests and rivers, raising environmental concerns and threatening the wilderness "experience." Everywhere, authorities are having to ration the outdoors with lotteries, permits and reservations for everything from biking to hiking. "It's ironic," observes University of California historian Roderick Nash. "By making wilderness popular, we now have to save it from its friends...