Word: blunts
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...average cut for the bottom 80% would be $239, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The top 1% would get breaks of $24,400 on average. "You have to give tax cuts to the people who pay taxes," argues House Majority whip Roy Blunt. Most of the benefits would kick in around election time, 18 months from now. Should the stock market bounce back and unemployment fall by that time too, Republicans believe that voters won't care if the rich get richer - as long as they do too. Democrats, who have their own, more...
...Many in India argue that there are few alternatives, since the country's judicial system is tainted by corruption and crippled by backlog. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, India's most famous cop for helping put down the Sikh insurgency in Punjab state in the 1990s, is blunt: "Our legal system doesn't work at all. If there are no legal remedies, there'll be extralegal ones...
...daintily into the lives of the lovelorn, tiptoeing around, or avoiding completely, realities like divorce, abortion and homosexuality. Then in 1955 Chicago housewife Eppie Lederer took over the syndicated Ann Landers column from a recently deceased nurse who had been doling out tabloid therapy under that pseudonym. With witty, blunt pointers ("A father who diapers his daughter at the age of 12 has a geranium in his cranium"), a heartfelt respect for her readers and a willingness to change her mind, she earned an ardent following of 90 million readers. Dubbed the country's most influential woman by a World...
...become George W. Bush's Treasury Secretary. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan loved the choice, the Vice President boasted in private two Decembers ago--and surely what made Greenspan happy would tickle the markets too. Except it didn't work out that way. A respected executive whose blunt talk the President at first found refreshing, O'Neill never emerged as a persuasive advocate for the Administration's economic policy--in part because he never accepted its central belief that the cure for any ill is more tax cuts. So it made a kind of Washington sense that Cheney...
...cooking, not the quality of their verbosity," says Aird. That could easily be Andrew Pern's mantra. The owner and head chef of The Star in the village of Harome, Yorkshire, runs one of the few pubs to have won a coveted Michelin star. Yet his menus are as blunt as the plain-spoken Yorkshireman himself. He serves dishes such as braised oxtail with horseradish sauce and "no pools of this and no puddles of that," Pern says. "Nine out of 10 times fancy descriptions are just trying to cover up ordinary food." The only thing ordinary about Pern...