Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's attack was designed to blunt mounting criticism from House Democrats that the Administration's tax proposals favor the wealthy. Reagan wants to reduce taxes 25% over three years for all income groups, which would return the most tax dollars to those who pay the most taxes. House Democratic leaders, who are pushing for a 15% tax cut over two years, would give only minimal reductions to individuals earning more than $50,000. "The President may be a real tightwad when it comes to programs that help working families," proclaimed House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil...
...Israeli air strike was only one of several disturbing signs last week of the continuing tension in the Middle East. The Soviet Union and Syria conducted joint naval maneuvers, a blunt reminder to the Israelis that they could be borrowing trouble if, as Begin had warned, they tried to knock out the Syrian missile sites in Lebanon. U.S. Envoy Philip Habib returned to the Middle East to try again to settle the Syrian-Israeli dispute, but so far neither side seems ready to budge. Complained Begin, a bit sanctimoniously: "With all due respect to my dear friend Philip, he didn...
...supporting roles. Best of these, the play's second-longest part, is the captain Fluellen of Roy Dotrice, whose one-man show Brief Lives on Broadway and at Harvard was one of the milestones of 20th-century acting. With an impeccable Welsh accent Dotrice has a grand time being blunt, prickly, contentious, and pedantic...
...tightly organized as the military. Not only can they afford the best boats, planes, navigational equipment and weaponry that money can buy, but they have also hired experienced military talent to supervise their operations. The smugglers have their own intelligence, counterintelligence and reconnaissance units. Their logic is as blunt as their favorite Mac-10 submachine gun: any sizable bust by the feds must of necessity be the result of a tipoff. You find the squealer and eliminate...
...television stations and 34 daily newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of 25 million (among them: the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer). Until his retirement in 1976, he batted out a weekly column for his papers, "The Editor's Notebook," in which he took blunt, conservative stands on fiscal policy and Big Government but staunchly opposed U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The column won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Knight, who prized journalistic excellence and encouraged editorial policymakers on all his papers to go their own ways, once said: "There is no known substitute...