Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...propose, illustrate the hypocrisy of the Administration's economic philosophy and threaten the trend toward more accessible higher education. Reagan cuts tuition support in the name of conservatism, but he intends to increase federal spending in areas like defense, while simultaneously reducing taxes. The federal deficit will probably creep even higher than the $100-billion mark sheepishly estimated by the Office of Management and Budget. In short, saving a billion or two by making it harder for students to attend college or graduate school must not qualify Reagan for the role of Courageous Budget Defender. Education loses out because...
...wife Faith (Diane Keaton) and their four daughters, for all those vague but somehow imperative reasons for which people leave people these days, and Daughter Sherry (Dana Hill) is not buying any of them. Nor is she covering her confusion with forgiveness. Better just not to speak to the creep. When Faith tries to avoid a scene by keeping George out of their handsome old Marin County house, George breaks in and pounds up the stairs to confront his eldest. She fights off his blend of bewildered love and rage. He spanks her. She threatens him with a scissors. They...
...several months the novelty and unabashed boldness of the Reagan plan worked like a miracle drug. Interest rates began to creep downward, and the Dow Jones industrial average hit an eight-year peak of 1,024 in April. But then moneymen began growing jittery as some of Wall Street's most influential economists, led by Henry Kaufman of Salomon Brothers and Albert Wojnilower of First Boston, warned that Reagan's goals of deep tax cuts, large increases in defense spending and a balanced budget were inconsistent and impossible to achieve. Nicknamed Dr. Doom and Dr. Gloom, Kaufman...
...meeting, to be in some way negatively directed: to have too large a proportion of malice, or envy, or some other defect that disables their personalities." By necessity, the severest criticisms of the Vatican come not by the design of the author, but rather by the little absurdities that creep through the narrative. Nichols, for example, dryly sets forth the procedure for papal selection; he hardly mentions the irony of a ballot system so full of verifications and double checks that the cardinals seem less like spiritual colleagues than paranoid poll-watchers. Similarly, when Nichols launches into a description...
...help rescuers spot the body. Meanwhile, on a gravel causeway 1½ miles away, workers prepare to unload Kardonsky's steel cathedral. Welders will separate the buildings from the barge decks. Transferred to the sort of crawlers that carry space rockets to launch pads, the buildings will creep to their final homes on the tundra amid frozen swamps, grazing caribou and flaming jets...