Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...privatization is that the Administration is under enormous pressure to cut Government spending and the federal deficit, which hit $212 billion in 1985 and is expected to top $220 billion this year. The new Gramm-Rudman law dictates that the deficit must shrink to $144 billion in 1987 and disappear altogether by 1991. If those targets are not met, the law calls for automatic across-the-board spending reductions that would be divided equally between defense and non-defense appropriations. To avoid that meat-ax approach, the White House is exploring all possible strategies for trimming spending, and privatization looks...
...proportion to the death of a handful of Americans knowingly engaged in an extremely hazardous activity. The networks replayed the craft's sudden explosion over and over again. Viewers witnessed countless clips of horrified family members and friends of the astronauts as they saw their loved ones disappear in a cloud of fire. No detail was too mundane or too personal or too painful...
...sick are pushed out of sight and out of mind and to which the unreality of video violence and fatality is but an image, which can be erased with the flip of a switch. Here was full-color, live video death--the real thing, something that did not disappear with the images on a TV screen...
...notion that the Gramm-Rudman Amendment, without modifications or a tax increase, can magically make the deficit disappear collapses as soon as one studies the numbers involved. With annual spending now at almost $1 trillion, the act's purpose is to reduce to zero an annual deficit currently running at some $200 billion. Yet about 70% of this year's budget, and at least half in future years, could be protected from automatic cuts. That means the increasingly painful slashes will have to come from just part of the pie, and more than half of that portion goes...
...plane kind of make a slow descent and disappear, and a mushroom of flame shot right into the air," said Boyce Jardine, who was driving nearby. "Actually, there was no noise at all. It was like watching a silent movie." But others heard a sound. "I saw a flash in the sky, like a sunset," said Judy Parsons, another motorist. "Then, in a couple of seconds, I heard an explosion. Then black smoke starting coming up." The witnesses seemed to agree on one vital point: the plane exploded after it plowed into the small trees near Gander Lake, not before...