Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rollins then took his turn at facing down Perot. It's time to make some decisions, Rollins argued, time to define yourself in voters' minds before your rivals and the press do the job their way. Perot put him off. The deal breaker from Rollins' viewpoint was Perot's dismissal of Hal Riney, whose firm Rollins had retained to create TV commercials. Perot thought Riney's fees far too high. Why should I spend $100,000 to shoot a single ad, Perot demanded, when I can get as much free time on talk shows as I want...
Less boppy students will describe orientation week as an "ordeal," or at least call it "weird." They find the placement tests too challenging, idiotic and numerous, and the ice-breaker events too shallow. The hi-what's-your-name-where-are-you-from-what's-y our-dorm-well-nice-to-meet-you mantra grows old very quickly, and the days become a blur of cookouts, sweaty parties and fierce scamming...
Well, 10 minutes late is unfortunate, yes, but a deal breaker...
...economy -- even on a rapidly expanding one -- than ever before in peacetime, sopping up credit that would otherwise have been available to the private sector and driving up interest rates. Even if this year's estimated deficit of $400 billion turns out to be a one-year ceiling-breaker caused by the recession, much of the underlying deficit is becoming self- perpetuating. This year 14% of federal payments -- or about $200 billion -- will go not for goods or services but merely for interest on the $3.9 trillion national debt. Since the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office projects annual deficits...
...pushed the decisive set to a tie breaker and won, after battling off a match point in the process...