Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better mood are not incentive enough for starting to exercise regularly, consider this: scientists now believe that lifelong physical exertion also protects against cancer and diabetes. In Boston last week researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that athletic women cut their risk of breast and uterine cancer in half and of the most common form of diabetes by two-thirds. Says Harvard Reproductive Biologist Rose Frisch, who led the 5,398-woman study: "The long-term effects of early exercise on health are impressive...
...compulsory seat- belt law, he balked. When attacked publicly, however, Dukakis is a dangerous opponent. Last summer staffers pressed him repeatedly to challenge Richard Gephardt's trade policies. Typically, Dukakis held back. But when Gephardt openly started to criticize him, Dukakis drew the Congressman into a debate and cut...
Reduce the write-off on business meals. The restaurant business did not collapse when the full deduction was cut to 80% in 1986. Now the deduction could be sliced to 50%. $3.6 billion
...building more weapons systems than are necessary to ensure the national defense. Troop levels could be trimmed, especially if the U.S. insists that its allies share more of the burden of defending the free world. Defense specialists in Congress and the Administration can choose from among several possible cuts: reduce the size of the aircraft-carrier fleet from 15 to twelve and cancel two planned carriers before construction begins (a saving of $3.5 billion in 1992); cancel the Stealth bomber ($7 billion); kill the C- 17 transport plane ($2.3 billion); freeze annual spending on the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...continue at planned levels. Rather than pour so much money into its own space program, the U.S. could enter into less costly joint projects with other countries. Specifically, the building of an additional space shuttle to replace Challenger could be canceled and funding / for the manned orbiting space station cut in half. That would still leave enough to build an unmanned platform in space while developing a larger manned station in cooperation with other nations...