Word: blows
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...courting political folly. The only time a state income tax was enacted in Connecticut, in 1971, it provoked such an outcry that it was repealed within six weeks. Tennesseans dislike the tax so much that the state courts once declared it unconstitutional. Both Governors hope to soften the blow of the new levies by lowering sales taxes. McWherter, a Democrat re-elected last fall, has also made the plan more palatable by promising to channel the new revenue toward education in a state that currently ranks near the bottom in per-pupil expenditure...
...bitter body blow. When you end up $730 million better than budget and then get hit with $4.7 billion over five years in additional costs imposed on you by legislation, that makes it hard...
...without interrupting. But then, for a good hour, she allowed no one to interrupt her monologue, in which she outlined in a most condensed way a position that was gaining greater momentum: not to limit things to a withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait but to inflict a devastating blow at Iraq, "to break the back" of Saddam and destroy the entire military, and perhaps industrial, potential of that country...
...Thatcher did not mince any words. No one should interfere with this objective, she declared. Saddam should not have even the shadow of a doubt that the world community would step back. It would achieve its objectives. No one should even try to ward off the blow against the Saddam regime...
...their very nature, chemical weapons are unreliable. They require ideal weather: not too hot, or the stuff will dissipate; not too windy, or the gases will disperse or possibly blow back onto the attacker. Of course, Saddam will seek to maximize the conditions, probably by using poisons late at night or early in the morning, when the temperatures are cooler. Because nerve gases like Sarin and Tabun disperse within minutes or, if enhanced with oil thickeners, within hours, Saddam is expected to lob these agents close to the front lines. He is likely to aim persistent toxins like mustard...