Word: casted
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...could produce the names of only three or four Democratic Senators susceptible to conversion. Besides Tower's fellow Texan Lloyd Bentsen and Charles Robb of * Virginia, the list included such unlikely possibilities as Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. White House aides point out that Tower cast one of five votes against the censure of Dodd's father Thomas, who was charged with misuse of campaign funds when the two men served in the Senate during the 1960s. They suggest that Kennedy might be brought around because he too has been victimized by rumors and innuendo, much...
...report cast a spotlight on the quiet but crucial duel between Greenspan and George Bush over U.S. economic policy. In its stand against inflation, the Fed has resolutely tightened credit since last March, when the prime rate stood at 8.5%. But Bush, even though he pledged during the fall campaign to drive inflation down to 2%, insisted two weeks ago that he is not "overly concerned" about the threat of rising prices and cautioned that he "would not like to see" the Fed push interest rates higher. In Tokyo last week, Bush asserted that the Fed might be overreacting...
Most important for Bush, runaway interest rates would cast a pall on the Administration's sunny outlook for economic growth, which is central to its plans to cut the budget deficit. The White House expects the economy to expand by a robust 3.3% in 1989, vs. the 2.7% growth rate predicted by a consensus of top private forecasters. The Administration's scenario for a fast-moving economy would raise more than $80 billion in fresh tax revenues and help Bush meet the $100 billion deficit ceiling mandated by the Gramm-Rudman law for fiscal...
Only once every decade or so, a new cast of characters sweeps into TV commercials and gives the viewing public a more telling picture of the U.S. population as a whole. During the baby-booming 1950s, advertising scenes were filled with contented suburban families. By the late '60s and early '70s, those characters gave way to a groovier generation of young people. In the years following that revolution, advertisers have slavishly followed a maxim that dictates YOUTH SELLS. In TV commercials, young people seemed to be the only ones driving cars, taking vacations and buying insurance...
...late '80s, the time has again come for a fresh cast of characters. This time their faces show the lines of age and experience because the new motto may well be MATURITY SELLS. In a new Eastern Air Lines ad, the happy vacationers cavorting on the beach are over 60. In the McDonald's commercial, the Lothario with an eye for the female customer is 75 if he's a day. And the lady who takes the Subaru for a joyride to the pulsing music of La Bamba must be pushing...