Word: ax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...climactic budget session on Nov. 15, Stockman reported that the most that social spending could be reduced in fiscal 1984 was $26 billion, even assuming an $8 billion saving in Social Security. Whether Congress will take an ax to Social Security is doubtful, given the political perils involved. And lopping $18 billion from other social programs is highly questionable unless Reagan obliges with an accompanying cut in defense spending. In any case, Stockman said, that still left a $155 billion deficit, even projecting 4% economic growth in fiscal 1984, which is the most optimistic assumption anyone dares to make...
Firing squads, frozen toes and frenzy down at the firehouse. A standard seven days on network television. The fall season has worked no changes. While a few new shows are already feeling the tickle of the cancellation ax (The Devlin Connection, The Quest), others, like Newhart (CBS, Mondays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.), seem to be cozying up for the duration. Nothing remarkable about this: shows breeze off the schedule at this time of year like leaves from branches. What is striking is the familiarity all the shows share, old and new alike...
...Western world. But as a short-story writer, she achieved the violent grace of a folk ballad. Something atavistic, something frontier-Texan came out in her. The sentences cut, like the wife's knife stabbing her husband's lover in "Maria Concepcion," like the farmer's ax splitting the head of his tormentor in "Noon Wine...
...only strategy that offers much hope for a deep reduction in the deficits would be a combination of cuts in social programs that so far have largely escaped the ax-above all, Social Security-a slash in the military budget and a rise in taxes. But Reagan will not even discuss paring back military spending, and he said in his latest news conference that only a "palace coup" could move him to accept higher taxes. The Democrats have also shied away from advocating less military spending or higher taxes, while some call for publicworks programs that would make the deficits...
...betrayals have turned the cast into a nest of hissing adders by Act II. They have to hiss; the setting is backstage during an actual performance of Nothing On at Weston-super-Mare. Eddington hands out three gifts: a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of whisky and an ax. These pass from hand to hand as swiftly as batons in a relay race. The action is a testimonial to Director Michael Blakemore's tornado pace and stopwatch timing...