Word: slides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps fitting denouement to their company's slide, Jones and Shaw early this month went to the Internal Revenue Service office in San Diego to arrange payment for their remaining $1,619 in back taxes. When the two businessmen were informed that they had just ten days to pay, an angry Jones demanded to know why they had not been told of that earlier. The IRS clerk replied calmly: "Probably incompetence around here. It sounds like a lot of red tape, but that's the Government...
Complaints about the cost of the Inaugural, the formal wear, Reagan's refusal to be drawn into policy discussions, all seemed to slide off the President elect. Nancy did not even travel to the capital on the third visit, and Reagan arrived with his same familiar speeches - and his same enduring good-guyness...
...erred in disputing the breadth and speed of Deng's modernization program. Also a factor: his increasingly embarrassing connection with the discredited Cultural Revolution. It was Hua, after all, who as Premier suppressed a now celebrated demonstration against the Gang of Four in Peking in 1976. His slide from power may have been accelerated by the Gang of Four show trial, which concluded its hearings last week...
...have been on a downward slide for several weeks now. But that just strengthens my belief that this is the time for what we have been advocating, which is a totally different policy. And I would think that even if some people question that different policy or are not in complete agreement with my own faith in it, and others' faith in it, that at least they would recognize it is time for a change, tune to try something different. I think that [the problems with the economy] will just mean that it will probably take a little longer...
...hairbreadth victory, following a strident and violence-marred campaign, was a hollow one for Romero. He had en joyed a 10-to 20-point lead in pre-election polls and was hoping for a land slide. The charismatic, white-haired Governor, an advocate of immediate state hood for Puerto Rico, had campaigned on a pledge that he would call a 1981 plebiscite on that question if the electorate returned him to office with a decisive majority. He now feels voters made it clear that they will not be hurried into state hood. "I thought I was being pushed...