Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Gulf War buildup, an F-15 fighter feigned an attack on an F-111 warplane "without warning them," Diehl says. "The inexperienced mishap pilot, apparently thinking they were under actual attack, crashed while taking evasive action." The crash was listed as a "combat loss...
...lackluster performance: the details Flowers has hung on her lurid tale are not very convincing. She offers a picture of her bed as proof that Clinton slept there, and a picture of a black teddy as evidence that he both purchased the undergarment and then removed it. The actual sex is so clichad and vulgar that a high school sophomore would be turned off, and the juicy parts can be read standing up at the store: intimate organs have names like Willard and Precious (p. 71); the act involved, at times, mascara, blusher, blindfolds and honey (pp. 71-75). Hillary...
...actual purpose of sitcoms, therefore, is not entertainment. True, little entertainment outside of absurd humor comes without the cost of a little mockery or deprecation. But a sitcom doesn't supply much wit or coincidence, just a constant stream of feeble pointing and ridiculing built on some imaginary person's futility...
There will be chances to revert back to that mode, of course. Budget resolutions only set broad dollar targets for federal spending and revenues. Other committees and then both houses must vote the actual appropriations, and eventually a mammoth "reconciliation" bill must be signed by President Clinton, or passed over his veto. During the months of wrangling to come, some proposals will surely be modified. The House g.o.p. may not get as big a tax cut on upper incomes as it wants, since its $340 billion tax-cut package means it will have to cut at least that much more...
...Kasich pleaded with reporters not even to use the word cuts in describing his Medicare proposals. While the House Budget Committee would reduce Medicare and Medicaid expenditures by $480 billion over the next seven years (the Senate figure is $454 billion), these would be cuts in planned expenditures only. Actual dollars spent would still rise every year-just not as much as they would under the current budget. Moreover, nearly all analysts believe Medicare spending is rising at an unsustainable rate, and will have to be reined in, tax cuts or no. Senate Republicans have suggested a bipartisan commission...