Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balance the budget on the backs of the American taxpayers." Ironically, most prominent among the "doubters" were Reagan's top aides, who strongly and unanimously urged new revenue measures. Chief of Staff James Baker and Budget Director David Stockman, and eventually the rest of the Reagan high command, were convinced that increased taxes were needed to save the Administration from increasing the nation's trillion-dollar debt by a whopping one-third during their first term. They tried to get Reagan to accept excise taxes as part of the trust fund for the transition of programs...
...that we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as possible." Roosevelt's running mate, Congressman John Nance Garner of Texas, 63, even claimed that Hoover was "leading the country down the path of socialism." Eleanor Roosevelt best summed up her husband's uncertain command of the future when she wrote at the time of his Inauguration: "One has a tremendous feeling of going it blindly, because we're in a tremendous stream, and none of us knows where we're going to land...
Roosevelt's penchant for experimenting guided his chief measure for industrial revival, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and his choice of the man he put in command of it, General Hugh ("Ironpants") Johnson. A profane and red-faced ex-cavalryman, an admirer of Mussolini and good bourbon, West Pointer Johnson had spent the war years spurring the Selective Service System and applying the whip to the War Industries Board, which supervised the manufacturing and sale of military supplies...
Providing those operators has become a business in itself. About 25 answering services have sprung up to handle the calls, many of them based in Omaha, in part because that area houses headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, and telephone service is particularly good there. Avis Rent a Car and National Data Corp., a credit-authorization service, now answer the phone for other companies as a sideline business...
...prose style that was capable of catching a famous writer's attention. It is interesting that, as psychologists have noted, some hopelessly inarticulate teenagers have committed murder because they simply lacked the verbal skill to communicate their anger in any other way; Abbott has at his command both the sophisticated and the more primitive forms of communication...