Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piece to the inner puzzle turned out to be Caspar Weinberger, 63, who from the beginning was almost certain to enter the Cabinet. "Cap the Knife" Weinberger acquired his fearsome nickname as a budget slasher in 1968 when he was Reagan's finance director in California, and he embellished his reputation as Nixon's OMB director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Weinberger is a devoted advocate of the inner circle idea, having worked under a similar arrangement with Reagan in Sacramento...
...Make Today My Birthday," the small carton trumpets, nay, pleads. "Here's how...when you get me home, carefully remove me from the box. I am not blinking yet, but if you place your thumbs on my side...you will feel my heart (battery with cap). Squeeze firmly...my heart will start, and my light will begin blinking continuously...
Like California's Dr. Schmidt, dentists around the country are consciously drilling for new business in unconventional ways. Dr. Allan Gutstein of Universal Dental Centers has installed dental chairs in several department stores in shopping malls on Long Island, N.Y. He and his colleagues drill, extract and cap in leased space, right alongside the ladies' lingerie and sporting-goods sections. In Worces ter, Mass., a soon-to-open shopping center dental office will provide parents with beepers so that they can browse and buy until they are signaled back to the office when junior is ready...
Policy. Caspar ("Cap the Knife") Weinberger, head of Reagan's budget policy group, said the new boss would hold federal spending in fiscal 1981, which began Oct. 1, to $620 billion, about $25 billion below the levels contemplated by Carter. Reagan's advisers accepted a proposal by Texas Senator John Tower to add $3 billion to the $157 billion in military spending recommended by Carter this fiscal year. Military pay would be raised an extra 2%, on top of the 11.7% increase already moving toward enactment. Tower also advocated an increase in military outlays of 10% a year...
...cap the world championship season, Hatamiya hit O'Keefe again, this time on a perfect 30-yard home run scoring bomb...