Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire was apparently set when two books of matches--found later on the ground near the building's entrance--were thrown into the can of lighter fluid. A bush near the building's entrance burned, and the ivy which scales the building's front side caught flame...
Sadat and his official party, which included former U.S. Envoy Robert Strauss, were then driven to nearby St. Catherine's monastery. There the Egyptian President was shown the site where Moses, according to tradition, saw God in a burning bush; Sadat was given a three-foot tendril snipped from a plant growing on the spot. Upon his departure, the site of the flag-raising ceremonies swiftly emptied...
...George Bush advocates a $20 billion tax cut in 1981. Teddy Kennedy thinks a pump-priming cut may be necessary in 1980, but is not yet sure. John Connally wants a crowd-pleasing $50 billion to $100 billion tax reduction spread over three to five years, while Howard Baker figures a four-year time frame is about right. Both Jerry Brown and Ronald Reagan would like lower taxes and a balanced budget (who wouldn't?), but want the cuts linked to a constitutional limit on the growth of federal spending...
...George Bush: He borrows a little from each of his competitors. Much of his thinking was pulled together during briefings by Economists Arthur Burns, Paul McCracken, Herbert Stein and Paul MacAvoy at Bush's summer home in Kennebunkport, Me. He urges an energy effort as metaphorically grand as "the landing on the beaches of Normandy...
...fails to outline a strategy for D-day beyond a vague "supply-oriented" program that features a watered-down windfall profits tax to finance drilling and synthetic fuels development. Bush calls for limits on federal spending but rules out a constitutional yoke. His $20 billion tax cut would be split fifty-fifty between business and individuals...