Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Families First...means teaching all our children that there is more power in the memory of a computer than in the barrel...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Medicare should not be used by Congress as a piggy bank to pay for lavish tax cuts or pork-barrel spending...
Choby, in his third run, is challenging John Murtha's big-money projects as "pork barrel" and "government handouts" that have not given needed invigoration to the local economy. His solutions include a moratorium on income taxes for the poor, repeal of capital-gains taxes for the middle class, and no tax deductions for health care...
Reformers are taking particular aim at baiting--using food to lure game into an ambush. With black bears, the bait station is typically set deep in the woods; fruit, pastry and livestock carcasses are placed in a large barrel or piled on the ground. Defenders of baiting point to the long hours and exhausting effort it takes to stalk and kill a bear. But critics like Colorado bear biologist Tom Beck ask, "How fulfilling is it to shoot a bear with its head in a barrel of jelly-filled doughnuts...
...have ever had in the history of this country a special-interest Administration that was bought and paid for lock, stock and barrel by selfish interests, it's [this] Administration...