Word: bloating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget until after he presents it to the newly convened Congress. Last week Dwight Eisenhower deliberately breached the custom by announcing that the budget for fiscal 1960 (beginning next July 1) "will be a balanced budget." Convinced that he is duty bound to combat both price inflation and governmental bloat, the President decided to risk the course urged by Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson: take a stand on fiscal responsibility, and let the political chips fall where they will...
...President will submit to the new Congress in January. It is a goal that might have to be discarded as irrelevant if the U.S. has to use force to preserve the West's outpost of freedom in Berlin. But meanwhile, the aim of combatting inflation and governmental bloat by balancing the budget is highly relevant to a challenge that confronts the U.S. in the middle of the 20th century: remaining loyal to sound governmental goals and principles while having to cope for years on end with a chronic crisis that is neither war nor peace...
...their troubles with the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system, the Amish are victims of the irreversible bloat that seems to afflict social-welfare plans. From modest beginnings in 1937, when it applied only to regular employees and nicked only 1% from their paychecks, OASI has expanded in both coverage and bite. Once Congress extended the system to farmers four years ago, it was plainly necessary for the Federal Government to make the Amish pay up: laws must apply to all alike. But the plight of the Amish was a footnote reminder that the welfare state has its victims...
...morning in mid-March. Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, wife of a roofer in Franklin, Ohio, awoke with what she called a bad stomachache. Drugs brought no relief all day. An orange-sized lump soon began to bloat her abdomen. When her doctor ordered emergency surgery. Dr. Walter A. Reese at Ohio's Middletown Hospital operated at once. He found a hemorrhage in a kidney that had apparently been displaced from birth. Swiftly, because the patient otherwise would have bled to death, Surgeon Reese removed the kidney. Despite massive transfusions, Mrs. Lowman lost so much blood during the operation that...
This results in a radical modification of the eating habits of the animals. Some of the rats suddenly stop eating almost completely, wasting away into emaciated skeletons; others eat constantly and bloat themselves to twice their normal size...