Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife, Writer Betty Wahl, who died in May. But mostly Powers blames his own temperament ("Basically, I'm lazy") and age: "When you're a young writer, you think you can do anything, and therefore sometimes , you can. But an old writer is like an old boxer: he's cut up, he's been knocked out, he knows all the ways you can get killed. So he's careful -- too careful...
California consumer groups have placed on the November ballot a referendum to cut insurance costs and reform the industry. Insurance companies are retaliating with three initiatives designed to reduce their payouts. As advocates of the rival measures trade barbs and hustle votes, they are spending plenty -- $60 million, $40 million of which will come from the insurance industry. It is by far the most expensive state election contest ever waged, costing close to two-thirds of the $100 million that the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are expected to spend this year...
...Ralph Nader-backed consumer group called Voter Revolt to Cut Insurance Rates is pushing for Proposition 103, which would slash rates 20% and force companies to win regulatory approval before raising prices again. The insurance companies are staunchly opposed to any new government regulation. The measure would also prohibit firms from charging unusually high premiums solely on the basis of location (see illustration...
Feelings about the draft continued to run high after it was abolished. As a freshman Congressman in 1977, Quayle voted to cut off funds for President Jimmy Carter's proposed program to grant amnesty to Viet Nam draft dodgers. Yet Wheeler speculates that Quayle, like others his age, may suffer from a vague sense of shame. "Most men who did not go to Viet Nam feel a twinge of guilt," says Wheeler, adding, "It's unnecessary emotional freight." Wheeler believes Quayle should speak out about the fears and conflicted feelings that so many young men experienced during the war. Such...
...protests were the first since last spring, when strikers plunged the country into the most widespread labor unrest since the tumult that spawned Solidarity in 1980. In response, authorities initially cut off food supplies to workers occupying a mine near Jastrzebie. But by week's end, as the unrest spread, the government's National Defense Committee threatened "appropriate decisions" and joint units of soldiers and military police patrolled Silesia...