Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's only major proposal for bringing in new revenue, cutting in half the tax rate on capital gains, is simply a rerun of the more disastrous provisions of the 1981 Reagan tax cut, which failed to promote the surge in savings and investment that supply-siders claimed it would...
...state. Schools closed, businesses ground to a halt, and hardy villagers huddled in their homes to keep warm. Furnaces shut down as heating oil turned to jelly, and stoves stood idle as propane gas liquefied. The greatest hardships occurred in central Alaska, where normal food deliveries were cut off. Governor Cowper called out the Air National Guard to parchute supplies into remote villages...
...What would you say about a character who wears a handsomely cut vanilla- colored suit on a winter day in New York, with a lilac tie and matching striped shirt with a collar seven stripes high, and shoes custom-designed to appear to have white spats...
...under current rules, members are allowed to keep up to $26,000 a year in honorariums, "they'll come out about the same in income" with the 30% raise. But few House members earn the maximum in honorariums, so most will be better off. The House bill will also cut back salary increases for Executive-department officials and judges, even though the Constitution prohibits reducing judges' pay. "We'll let them fight it out," presumably through a court challenge, says the Speaker...
...drastic austerity program that will slash the national budget by almost half and lay off nearly 35,000 public employees, including 10,000 army personnel and 13,000 members of the security police. The measures are aimed at stimulating production, almost at a standstill, and exports, which have been cut nearly in half by the war. The program also targets Nicaragua's towering rate of inflation, which reached an almost unimaginable 22,000% last year...