Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Returning money to people who are already middle-class or higher through a tax cut merely increases the demand for luxury goods, without resolving any of the serious issues that face our country. The past seven years have produced tremendous financial gains. It is now time to use that money on those who need it. The bull market has placed the United States at the top of the financial ladder. Perhaps now, we can turn our attention to those who were left behind...
...Harvard was not fazed by Cahill, or by her teammates' physical defense. The Crimson needed two goals in the third period, and that was just what it got. Playing shorthanded, Ruggiero fought her way into the crease to cut the deficit in half 1:41 into the final period. Junior winger Angie Francisco got the equalizer 10 minutes later by putting back the rebound on a shot from Shewchuk, her linemate...
...stalks around like a boxer waiting for the bell, twists his wedding ring on his finger, talks a blue streak and then says, "Whoa," as if snapping out of a trance. But he can be artful. Describing his opposition to the G.O.P.'s proposed across-the-board spending cut, he says, "It takes courage to eliminate pork-barrel spending," invoking his war-hero past without mentioning it. He sorts through the sillier items tucked into the recent appropriations bills--$1 million for peanut-quality research ("Can't the peanut people do that?"), $200,000 for sunflower studies in Fargo...
...huge amounts of money." Soon he's rumbling through the domestic agenda like a tank. "The tax code is 44,000 pages long--why can't we reform it? Because of the grip of the special interests." He even applies his worldview to the G.O.P.'s $792 billion tax cut, which Clinton vetoed in September. "It included special tax breaks for the oil-and-gas industry that would have taken effect as soon as the President signed the bill--but the repeal of the marriage penalty [which makes couples pay more tax just because they're married] would not have...
...have occupied prime Manhattan real estate free of charge for nearly 50 years--but nothing justifies the degree of sheer pitilessness that the U.N.'s biggest, richest and most important member has shown toward the world body since the mid-'80s. That's when the U.S. decided to cut back on paying its U.N. dues, got serious about slashing the organization's bloat, held funding for the U.N. hostage to abortion politics and allowed the U.S. to begin accumulating well over $1 billion in arrears...