Word: budgeted
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...budget summiteers could also save an estimated $24 billion in the next three years by freezing the annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security payments. That is not likely: just last year, when the Consumer Price Index failed to rise by 3%, the amount necessary to trigger a cost-of-living increase, Congress went ahead and voted an $8.6 billion hike anyway...
...case the budget cutters forgot about the power of elderly voters, Congress sent them a reminder last week: the Senate passed a bill providing for catastrophic health insurance, a worthwhile law that will nonetheless dramatically expand Medicare payments for serious illness. Although financed by Medicare premiums at the outset, the program will cost $1.4 billion this year, $4.5 billion in 1990 and untold amounts in the future...
Sammy & Rosie is never dull. Indeed, it shrinks from the ordinary as it does from decorum, balance or coherence. Kureishi and Director Stephen Frears, who two years ago collaborated on the low-budget My Beautiful Laundrette, have - no time for the dramatic verities. They're breathless with all the hot news inside them. In his diary that accompanies the film's published screenplay, Kureishi describes Sammy & Rosie as his usual "mixture of realism and surrealism, seriousness and comedy, art and gratuitous sex . . . All the bits and pieces will just have to get along with each other, like people...
...confidence in the Federal Reserve by praising its efforts to confine the crisis to Wall Street. Wire Governors and mayors to keep public projects alive so that there will be no abrupt layoffs. Repeat to all visitors that it is the President's policy, in seeking to balance the budget, to cut first into business profits before putting any more burden on wage earners. Call for less expensive Government but without heavy taxes...
...world. Perhaps most significant is Robertson's role as the Republican Jesse Jackson. The televangelist was never challenged on any of his debate statements, even when he claimed that the lost earnings of aborted fetuses could save the Social Security system, or that he would balance the budget by "cutting waste and mismanagement." Like the Democrats with Jackson, the G.O.P. contenders could only respond to a symbolic candidacy with slavish praise; Kemp gushed, "The Republican Party ought to thank Pat Robertson for bringing in evangelical Christians and Democrats...