Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same White House official conceded, however, that it would be pointless for the Administration to send a budget so stripped of popular spending programs that it would be "dead on arrival" on Capitol Hill. He insisted that the final product would be "credible." The big questions were whether the credibility would extend to cutting the defense budget and the big middle-class entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare...
...Like most of the proposals, the Treasury plan presumably will be "revenue neutral"; it will net the Government the same amount of money as does the existing tax. Reagan recently repeated his campaign pledge that tax reform would be used as a disguised tax hike "only over my dead body...
...structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence of drawings: three human figures stand by a dump site; one of them drinks from a bubbling well and falls dead...
...probably wouldn't have lived any longer without the baboon heart but now they're both dead," he says. He added that very rarely does a doctor have to make a life or death decision based on killing an animal for the sake of a human being. "Seventy million animals die every year in experiments and almost none of these deaths save the life of a human...
...Oval Office may be the headiest place in America. When the President, sitting in his desk chair at the southern tip of the oval, stares dead ahead to the far wall, he sees The Plant. Anywhere else it would be a robust but unremarkable Swedish ivy. But there on the marble mantelpiece, day after consequential day, it basks in the power and the glory. No matter who has been inaugurated since 1961, The Plant has always stayed...