Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During your campaign, you promised not only no new taxes but also to protect Social Security, major weapons programs, farm subsidies. If you don't break the tax promise, do you feel you may have to give a little on some of those programs...
...deficit by making U.S. exports cheaper overseas and imported goods more expensive for American shoppers. But U.S. imports just keep on rising. That partly reflects what some economists have begun to call "hysteresis" -- a fancy term for the notion that new habits, like old ones, are hard to break. Americans have learned to love Japanese cars, TVs and videocassette recorders, and are reluctant to give them up, regardless of price...
...language gap. Dukakis and Brountas interpreted partnership as if they were discussing a law firm. For Jackson, the term implied common goals and respect. Brown, a partner in one of Washington's most powerful law firms who began his career as an organizer with the National Urban League, helped break the impasse...
...tears or toilet seats. As a result of education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual intercourse, the evidence does not indicate that AIDS is about to break out in a big way into the mainstream population...
Paulos swiftly explodes that notion by discussing stock-market scams, batting averages, newspaper psychics, fraudulent medical treatments, election polls and the reasons why blackjack is a better gambler's game than dice. Those who break into a sweat at the mention of calculus or plane geometry can relax. This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications. Best of all, it has no quiz at the end, and as Paulos generously admits, the "occasional difficult passage can be ignored with impunity...