Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the cuts--including an 8.5 percent drop in dairy price supports and a 2.3 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals--would be implemented as soon as Reagan signed the order...
Reagan had threatened to veto an earlier version, passed by the House last May, which would have cut defense spending more drastically and imposed harsher arms control restrictions. The administration feared that the bill would hamper the United States in arms negotiations with the Soviet Union...
...years and then gone back down again," said Deborah V. Weinstein, executive director of the Massachussetts Human Services Committee, another sponsor of the rally. "The foodstamp program worked well when it was first set up and then in the last few years--the Reagan years--foodstamp eligibility was cut back and benefits were not keeping up with inflation...
...considerably poorer since 1979. The purchasing power of the average person with a job has declined to less than 20% of what it was in 1980. Food and fuel are tightly rationed. A few weeks ago the gas allowance, obtained with coupons bearing a portrait of Che Guevara, was cut from 20 to 17 gal. a month. Earlier this year, the government-subsidized rice ration was reduced to 1 lb. a person a month, down from 5 lbs. three years ago. "A pound of rice might feed a small family for a day," complains Jose Romero Arana at Managua...
...tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio needs that afternoon: "Put a fork in me, Lou, I'm done." Cut and print...