Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looked eagerly toward Sacramento as they awaited word on just how hard the tax revolt would hit them. As Brown moved to draft a master plan, some of his aides thought they saw in his eyes the same sort of glint that was there in the days when he beat Jimmy Carter in five straight 1976 primaries. Said one Brown aide: "I haven't seen the adrenaline flowing like this since the early days of his political career...
...twist the fleece into yarn, then turn it over to the weavers, who throw shuttles of yarn back and forth across the warps of their looms with metronomic regularity. "More gray, more gray," barks Debbie Abbott, captain of the defending champion, team Minnie and the Hampmonters. Without missing a beat, her spinners turn to. The resulting shawl, complete and ready for auction in less than 2½ hrs., is sold for $75. Straight from producer to consumer...
...compromise appears likely. The Administration has given up trying to beat Steiger, and is instead seeking to keep shallow any cut in capital-gains taxes. The hottest prospect is a reduction in the maximum rate to 35%. Meanwhile, the whole episode has shown politicians once again how deeply Americans have come to resent taxes. Says Richard Rahn, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, a lobbying group for lowering capital-gains rates: "Support for Steiger is coming not from the fat cats but from middle-income people yelling 'I want a chance to make...
...easiest refuge in dull times is to hype a story-to make every major or minor shenanigan a Watergate (as in Koreagate, Lancegate and Hollywoodgate). Maybe you can excuse the Washington columnist or the fellow on the beat for tired coinages like that, but you shouldn't excuse the editor who prints them. An editor is always free to change a subject rather than try to inflate it. With Washington less exciting, the cover stories in the newsweeklies again range more widely, to science, medicine, entertainment and sports. Too many magazines and newspapers have also turned-to the displeasure...
There were some good spots, of course. The basketball team beat league champ Penn, but don't bother looking up the hoop squad's record. It'll only make you cry. Or laugh--you see, it was a funny kind of year in sports...