Word: cures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taxes. Last year 43 states imposed new tax increases. Lawmakers did so at their political peril. In Michigan, two state senators who supported Governor James Blanchard's 38% income tax increase in 1983 were recalled by irate voters. But while voters balked at the medicine, they appreciated the cure. Michigan's deficit has shrunk from $1.7 billion to $250 million in the past two years, and a proposal to roll back taxes to 1982 levels was soundly rejected at the polls last month...
Unfortunately, the antidotes most likely to cure the nation of its deficit ills--a slowdown in military spending and increased taxes--are the the remedies the President is least willing to prescribe. When Administration spokesmen said that in the current budget everyone's ox would get gored, they omitted to mention the sacred cow defense, now tentatively pencilled in for a $42 billion spending increase...
...cities and to nongovernment organizations where the midday rest is also a tradition. However, the rite of xiuxi may have become too ingrained to be rooted out so easily. Says one Peking writer: "The directive won't change much. It's like operating on a finger to cure an ulcer...
...week's end the world's second recipient of an artificial heart was getting out of bed and sitting in a chair, eating solid foods-warm porridge and cottage cheese-and sipping that longed-for beer, which he promptly dubbed "the Coors cure." Well-wishers had sent cases of the Colorado brew and other brands, in addition to crateloads of cards, plants and bouquets, even a Cabbage Patch doll...
...voters' reaction to the looming deficit dilemma identifies a national ambivalence threatening to thwart any effort to cure society's ills. The public is not shielding itself from reality; polling information reveals that the electorate is well aware of the deficit's adverse affects on inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Consistently, surveys indicate that the public considers the deficit the nation's most pressing crisis. Yet further polling information suggests that the people are not willing to accept tax hikes, a reduction of loopholes or decreased social services in order to whittle away the $180 billion figure. The electorate...