Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, however, protested that the idea was far too complicated. He was the most persistent and forceful advocate of the idea that finally won: a 15% across-the-board cut in income tax rates over six years. The idea was so simple that a button touting it could say simply 15%--whereas, Abraham scoffed, a button for the other plan would have to read AGI-FICA, and even that would need detailed explication...
...track's cobblestone lanes. "This is where it gets rough on our test drivers," he warns me, just as, on cue, the Jeep slams to a halt, throwing us painfully against our seat belts. "Oops," Zyburt says sheepishly. He has accidentally bumped into the system-override "kill'' button set in the back seat. If this had been a real smartway, we might have found ourselves at the business end of a multicar pileup...
...Kemp and consultants John Sears and Ken Kachigian, plus Merksamer. On Oct. 12, the candidate finally signed on during a long meeting at his Washington headquarters. By the time of his debate with Clinton the following Wednesday night, Dole was salting his remarks with references to California's hot-button issues: affirmative action, illegal immigration and defense-spending cuts...
Since many of the senior faculty entered academia when typewriters were still standard, "the very fact that the delete button goes backward and erases things you have typed--that's already a quantum leap for someone from my generation," Nagy says. "What a gift...
...issues. The audience, screened by the Gallup organization to keep out hard-core Dole and Clinton supporters, was selected from registered San Diego County voters who say they are still undecided. What the candidates can expect to hear from them are concerns important to California voters, especially three hot-button issues: Proposition 209, a proposal to repeal affirmative action, Proposition 215, which would to allow medical uses of marijuana and the recently-enacted welfare reform bill, a vital issue in a state that contains about 40 percent of the country's immigrants. -->