Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggested instituting a vaguely defined tax on energy and eliminating the income tax provision that reduces the marginal tax rate for the wealthiest Americans from 33% to 28%. Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich, are calling for tax cuts to blunt the edge of a recession. G.O.P. leaders responded with a call for a cut in capital gains taxes, which Democrats adamantly oppose, along with higher levies on tobacco and alcoholic beverages and a $10,000 limit on individual deductions for state and local taxes...
...pussycat. Baryshnikov, 42, the pre-eminent male dancer of the 1970s and '80s, defined the great classical ballet roles. Morris, 34, is a brilliant and somewhat unruly postmodern choreographer. Baryshnikov dances "up," every graceful move a dismissal of gravity. Morris, a marvelous performer as well, is blunt and emphatic. Where the one leaps high, the other stamps down, like the folk dancer he was as a teenager...
Barron's prognosis for Central Square, should the current climate continue, is nothing if not blunt...
...reputation as being pretty blunt. You characterized the Republican report on the Iran-contra affair as "pathetic," for example...
Last week another U.S. official was even more blunt. Relations between the two countries were "at a turning point," he said to TIME after the meeting. "We told Moi that he has one month to make some changes." After that, he explained to the Kenyans, there would be no chance of deterring a disapproving Congress from cutting...