Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget reductions. Senators and Congressmen have long records of willingness to cut every program -except ones that affect them or their districts. The result is lots of spending and few cuts. But if inflation is ever to be controlled, Congress must be willing to reduce even its sacred pork-barrel programs...
...There is another sketch at something called the Daily Gannett, which I think parodies the Law School newspaper, except I'm not sure there is a Law School newspaper. After that they parody the BSA. I thought the BSA was the Black Students Association. But the sketch was a barrel of ho-hos, I'm sure...
Clark contended that his proposed total of $3.5 billion in tax increases was an essential step in bringing Ottawa's $11.2 billion spending deficit under control. He fought for his plan to raise the domestic price of oil by $4 a barrel from $13.75 this year. His goal, he said, was to encourage energy conservation as well as the development of new oil supplies. But the proposed oil price boost was seen in eastern Canada as a boondoggle for the oil producers of Clark's native Alberta. Ontario's Tory Premier William Davis publicly clashed with Clark...
...This council has that neighborhood over a barrel," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said at the meeting. "Now that the election has gone by it's much easier to say 'I believe in neighborhood participation--to a point.' I'm voting for the neighborhood," he added...
Almost 70 per cent of students, and a plurality of the city, registered as Independents, something of a surprise in a district long regarded as lock, stock and barrel Democratic. And hundreds more students and other residents switched their registration from Democrat to Independent...