Word: bankrupted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to feel uncomfortable if you have the right doctor, the right drug connection, the right pusher. We have lost touch with the fundamental notion that people can operate not always feeling terribly well. Taking cocaine is not the answer. In the end it leaves you psychologically bankrupt...
...sharp disapproval in the Republican-controlled Senate. Last week the Senate passed by a 96-0 vote a "sense of Congress" resolution voicing opposition to key parts of the Reagan plan. But that still leaves the question of what to do to keep the Social Security program from going bankrupt. Martin Feldstein, professor of economics at Harvard and president of the National Bureau of Economic Research, pointed out that benefits to Social Security recipients have risen by 30% since 1970, while the buying power of people still working has decreased by 10% because of inflation. Said Feldstein: "We must find...
...year ago, the banks which hold the Pudding's mortgages told the club it could not take out more loans, forcing the Pudding to start making ends meet, so club officials are looking for other means to keep from going bankrupt...
...everyone, including the poor themselves. Says White House Press Secretary James Brady: "There is an obligation by society to provide a floor for people, but as to writing into law legal entitlements on every possible service that is provided by the Federal Government, you have a policy that could bankrupt the country...
...elementary school who is busily donning her New Woman persona on the threshold of middle age. She insists, perhaps understandably, on being called Ms. Strong, instead of Mrs. Fidgett. This flusters Headmistress Smale (Beverly May) and the older staff, as do her theories of education, which smack of the bankrupt experiments of the '60s. She has no use for learning by rote. She wants children to play teachers, to make up their own work assignments, and for every one to "have a lot of fun and excitement, the kids and the teachers." The children, who are never seen...