Word: derailer
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...projects a $59.9 billion deficit for fiscal 1976, which starts in July, v. a $51 billion forecast earlier. That almost certainly reflects President Ford's policy proposals and insistence that a $60 billion deficit is the biggest the nation can stand. To safeguard his objective, Ford can derail some congressional spending plans. Last week he vetoed a $5.9 billion supplemental appropriations bill because it provided more money for summer jobs, greater unemployment compensation and other programs than he had requested; Democrats are uncertain that they can override the veto. Nonetheless, Congress is sure to raise spending enough to push...
CORNELL-BROWN--The Bruins are obviously on the upswing, having now won two in a row. Hopefully the Big Red will derail this juggernaut before it gets to Soldiers' Field next Saturday. Cornell 23, Brown...
Leon Sharpe challenged Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace's supremacy on the long jump pits with his best ever--a 22 ft. plus leap. But Vanderpool-Wallace's 24 ft. 4in, was enough to derail Sharpe's efforts. Neither Princeton nor Yale could place a man between them, and Harvard took first and second...
...parts they play, high all the time off the magic of movie-making. The movie itself is pieced together out of bits of the actors' lives that develop in the course of its making. It's rather a haphazard day-by-day process, highly prone to accidents that to derail it irrevocably--all very nicely de-mystified. It's the personality of Truffaut though, more than anything else, that makes Day for Night. You can't help but like him. No matter his conventional tastes, his whimsies and antis and fancy flights that paint the world as child's play...
...been championed by the New Democrats. Thus Lewis found it relatively easy to pledge his support for the government until he sees how Trudeau follows through on the proposals. Exulted Liberal Strategist Allan MacEachen: "We've been given a real chance to stay on. Only an accident could derail...