Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commerce and excitement in such a tiny community is geography: its location between Beverly Hills and Hollywood (which legally disappeared into the city of Los Angeles in 1910). Shaped like a pistol complete with hammer and trigger, West Hollywood nestles at the base of the Hollywood Hills with its barrel aimed resolutely east...
...defense business for Prudential-Bache Securities. Also worrisome is the mounting opposition to SDI at the universities where much of the basic research will be done. Campus critics, including many scientists, argue that Star Wars is technologically unworkable and wasteful: a pie in the sky and a pork barrel on the ground...
...wishes, the President can use the line-item veto as a tool for rewarding, or as a weapon for punishing, individual congressmen. Used in this way, it can actually increase government spending. Congressmen have traditionally attached district-pleasing pork barrel to major spending legislation to protect their pet projects from vetoes. The President, proponents would argue, should have an item veto so that he can trim away this unnecessary spending. So far so good. But suppose that a new weapons system, which the President strongly favors, comes up. He now needs votes in Congress. Ordinarily, he would bargain, compromise, appear...
...line-item plan affords the President a new--and quite powerful--stratagem: he can threaten to item veto only the pork barrel projects of the congressmen who vote against the weapon system. Many congressmen, eager for re-election, might cave in to these threats and vote for a costly military device which they would ordinarily oppose. As a result, both the pork barrel and the weapons system pass Congress and are signed into law--not exactly what the line-item veto was supposed...
While investigators were trying to determine what industrial chemicals had fed the blaze, Mayor Lipari announced that the cause of the catastrophe had been traced to two twelve-year-old neighborhood boys, who had slipped through a fence and ignited a barrel apparently filled with volatile naphthalene. Said the mayor: "They stated they were playing with matches...