Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When attached to the tire, the boot renders a car immobile by clamping onto the rim of the tire and locking it in place. The boot also covers the hub cap, thus preventing a motorist from merely taking off the locked tire...
...actually accomplished so far, and about his continued performance in a second term. The last time he hit the campaign trail. King pledged $500 million in immediate property tax reductions. Unable to deliver on that promise, he did succeed in leading a bill through the legislature imposing a cap on the amount local governments could increase property taxes. But several communities took advantage of the override provisions in the bill, and the ensuing increase in local taxes spurred the passage of Proposition 2 1/2, the property tax reducing referendum King first opposed but now accepts...
...implicit goals of Reagan's federalism plan is eventually to cap or reduce social spending at all levels of Government. By assuming full control of Medicaid, for example, the Federal Government will be more able to cut the program's cost. Some of the services once provided by Washington will simply be dropped by the states, a prospect that many liberals fear and many conservatives favor (see following story...
...dullest and most depressing. The theaters are closed, the cafés usually empty and the streets practically devoid of traffic after dark. But worse than these obvious signs is the apparent death of the spirit. Poland is a nation of individuals. The most ordinary worker wears his cap just so and has his own look. Now, when you walk through Warsaw, the people somehow seem faceless...
...they tell her that she must procure the magic zither which confers upon its owner the power to go to sleep while apparently carrying on a conversation.... Immerglich calls to her side Dampfboot, the tinsmith of the gods, and bids him make for her a tarnhelm or invisible cap which will enable her to talk to people without their understanding a word she says. For a dollar and a half extra, Dampfboot throws in a magic ring which renders its wearer insensible...