Word: blunts
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Treasury Secretary Donald Regan made that stunningly blunt remark last February in an effort to disown the 330-page annual report issued by the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The study had warned about the danger posed by the Administration's huge budget deficits. The White House last week went a giant step further, revealing that it may want to discard not only the council's embarrassing statements but the panel itself. The disclosure marks a historic nadir in the influence of the CEA, which was established by Congress in 1946 to be the President...
Moving quickly to prevent another sag in spirits at EPA, the President announced that Ruckelshaus would be replaced by Lee Thomas, 40, a blunt, hard-driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...
DIED. George Aiken, 92, Republican veteran of the U.S. Senate for 34 years, and Governor of Vermont (1937-1941), who after five decades in politics still referred to himself as a New England land farmer; in Montpelier, Vt. A blunt-spoken maverick whose liberal views often nettled his party, Aiken led efforts to bring electricity to rural America, to build the St. Lawrence Seaway and to create the nationwide food-stamp program. His campaigns were noted for their thrift. Expenses often totaled less than $20-for stamps to send "thank you" letters to people who had, unasked, circulated his reelection...
...inflections, Getty delivers such gems as "You have your whole life ahead of you...while mine is flashing before my eyes," "What do I say...do I tell you how to run your life?" and the ultimate, "You get only one mother in this world." Through the humor and blunt directness, she expresses her own pain and frustration, her own strength and resolve, revealing that what her son feels is really not so alien to her. The scene becomes very familiar, and suddenly we realize that this is a more realistic slice of life that we ever expected...
...Farrell Blunt...