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- GRAPEVINE, Page 29The Political Prop Parade
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- A Survey of Those Silly Budget-Battle Photo Ops
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- GREEN EYESHADES (1980 Deficit $74 Billion)
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- The "Save Our Bucks" committee, a bipartisan group of
- Senators, announces plans to cut $10 billion from Carter's
- final budget.
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- BUGGING OUT (1985 Deficit $185 Billion)
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- Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte yuks it up during an
- end-of-session budget fight that left many issues unresolved.
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- ALIVE ON ARRIVAL (1987 Deficit $150 Billion)
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- Responding to criticism that Reagan's '87 budget proposals
- were DOA, aides stage a "miracle recovery" on Capitol Hill.
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- CUTTING IMAGERY (1988 Deficit $155 Billion)
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- Angered that Congress raised the nation's debt ceiling from
- $2.1 trillion to $2.8 trillion, Reagan pledges to rip into
- spending.
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- CRYSTAL GAZING (1989 Deficit $152 Billion)
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- Huddling after the stock-market crash, Illinois Congressman
- Dan Rostenkowski and Silvio Conte search for long-term cuts.
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- LOUISVILLE MUGGER (Estimated 1991 Deficit $250 Billion)
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- Republican leader Bob Dole presents Bush with a big stick
- at the opening of the latest budget summit.
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