Word: bread
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...least a billion dollars beyond the $1.5 billion in cuts already planned. He also suggested an end to the system of tying wage and benefit increases to inflation, which is rising at an annual rate of 486%, as well as cutbacks in subsidies on such basic commodities as bread and milk...
Stuffed with french bread, how can Mr. Hooks help educate the Harvard undergraduate who drew derogatory from the South Side of Chicago who believes that Harvard University is just a place for the elite and the rich...
...only one Maurice Sendak. His drawings for Grimm fairy tales and his million-copy bestseller, Where the Wild Things Are (1963), unfolded the primary metaphors of dreams; In the Night Kitchen (1970) fused Walt Disney, Laurel and Hardy, the comic strips of Winsor McCay and the reassuring images of bread and bed; Outside Over There (1981), the story of an airborne young heroine, had the enchanting quality of classical ballet. After that, Sendak's interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, as well...
...Human Services Secretary who now runs the American Council of Life Insurance. The life and health insurers have bought $ 1 million worth of TV ads to stir opposition to taxing fringe benefits (one ad shows a flock of birds circling around and pecking away at a loaf of bread). The Massachusetts Legislative Council for Older Americans is preparing a nationwide call for mass meetings, parades and a march on Washington to resist Medicare cuts. Vows a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "If they want to make drastic cuts in veterans' hospitals, they...
Sovereignty for Quebec was the rallying cry that helped carry Premier René Levesque and his Parti Québécois to power eight years ago. When Levesque declared last week that the goal of independence had to give way to bread-and-butter issues, he split his party and possibly jeopardized his eight-seat majority in Quebec's provincial parliament. Five cabinet ministers resigned, two legislators bolted, and half a dozen others threatened to quit the party. The defectors included Finance Minister Jacques Parizeau and Social Affairs Minister Camille Laurin, an author of the law that imposed...