Word: cut
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...specific votes show exactly how far out of touch with the mainstream Bush is. In 1986, the administration's budget proposed cutting student financial aid by $20 billion over a period of four years. There was bipartisan opposition to this measure. The administration also backed an amendment to the Department of Education appropriations bill that would have cut education funding by more than $800 million. The majority of voting Republicans rejected the amendment...
...sings sounds. "Singing without words is easier," he says. "Consonants get in the way. It's hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard, can be the chug of a train or the swoosh of a samba beat. Whether in a Beatles number like Drive My Car or a dazzling reworking of a '60s classic like Good Lovin', the point for McFerrin "isn't to be instrumental but to tell a story. Like...
Legislative Legerdemain Award. To Bentsen, for accusing Quayle of voting to cut Social Security benefits eight times. Quayle voted only to delay cost of living adjustments, just as Bentsen...
...requiring a New York City developer to tear down the top dozen floors of a new 31-story condominium on Manhattan's East Side. The concrete superstructure for all 31 floors was in place in 1986 when the city found that the building violated zoning laws and ordered it cut down to size. The developer, Parkview Associates, kept working on the building and went to court, arguing that there ( had been an error in the city's zoning map. But Parkview should have noticed the error, a New York appeals court ruled in February. Decapitation of the condo could cost...
...cut to fall of 1988 and, in network television, nothing adds up. The three networks are still scrapping with one another for ratings supremacy, but the days when they dominated the airwaves so thoroughly are just a Wonder Years memory. Only a few theatrical movies comparable to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest show up on network TV anymore; when they do, most people have already seen them on pay cable or videocassette. Gone With the Wind is no longer available to the networks at all; rights to it are owned by Atlanta TV mogul Ted Turner, who used...