Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former "Today Show" host confidently and frequently cut off the 12 men likely to be the next leader of the free world. Contrast that with his obsequious behavior on t.v. the night before with Mikhail Gorbachev--a telegenic and articulate Mayor Daleytype--and you get an idea who's a bigger ratings draw and why Judge Robert Bork has some misgiving about the First Amendment. "I see," Brokaw would say, nodding with an impressed smile to Gorbachev answers like "We have eliminated the exploitation of man by man. We have no unemployed!" to such questions as "Why are there...
This is scary. The issue is not a man's right to yell at his wife (or vice versa) on the privacy of his own tennis court. The issue is the public's right to know about a politician's private life. So Frank Carlucci is a cut-throat egomaniac who yells at his wife because he is insecure about his baseline game. What right does any newspaper have to tell us about this and why in the world should we care...
...exactly, is an alcoholic? The question is a tricky one: symptoms are not always clear cut, and even doctors do not agree on a definition of the disease. The extreme cases are obvious. A person in the grip of alcoholism blacks out from drinking too much, suffers memory loss, and wakes up trembling with craving for another drink. But most cases show fewer dramatic symptoms. Also, the behavior of alcoholics fluctuates wildly. Some drink heavily every day, while others can stop for brief periods, only to go off on binges. This past year the American Psychiatric Association settled on three...
...summiteers instead proposed tax increases of $9 billion for fiscal 1988, which began Oct. 1, and $14 billion for the following year. The compromise calls for a $5 billion cut from the defense budget in the current fiscal year, $8.2 billion more in 1989. Medicare, farm price supports and student loans would be trimmed by $4 billion this year and nearly $6 billion next year. But there was little in the way of specifics. The conferees did not spell out where the new tax burden was going to fall. Nor did they decide which nondefense discretionary programs were going...
...Administration persistently refused to give ground on defense-spending cuts. The Republicans opened the bidding by offering Pentagon reductions totaling $4 billion. The Democrats countered with a suggestion for a $6.3 billion cut. At one point, a compromise of around $5.3 billion was in the works. But the final figure was closer to Reagan's liking: $4.9 billion. "We were constantly fighting over the defense numbers," said one participant. "Every inch was a battle." Many Democratic summiteers were annoyed that the new Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci sat in on many of the early sessions, looking out for the Pentagon...