Word: disappears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuzzy call for an era of bipartisanship and high ethical standards: if everyone in power would just get along with everyone else in power, all would be well. A 51% federal salary increase would quietly take effect, the Cabinet could be swiftly and pleasantly confirmed, sleaze would disappear in a warm glow of mutual trust. If everyone would make the same rosy economic assumptions, money would be found to pay for the savings and loan cleanup just unveiled and the budget just proposed...
Capitol Hill Democrats quickly estimated that the Bush budget calls for $20 billion in spending reductions but identifies just $10 billion in specific cuts -- such as the slash envisioned for federal workers' cost of living increases. The remaining $10 billion in reductions disappear into what Senate Budget Committee chairman James Sasser called the "black box" of the budget. Asked about this timorous lack of specific recommendations, a senior White House aide said with a chuckle, "We're too smart for that. There's no law that says you have to define cuts and throw out red flags...
...make someone happy through a dress," she says. "You see what happens to a woman -- how they put it on, and insecurities, disappointments, complexes disappear. I think about women's complexes -- having breasts, not having breasts -- and I try to make something for the body. I try to make a waist for women who don't have one." She will, however, be wasting no time, so best snap up that Sybilla now. She promises to retire in five years...
...surfaced on the world's political agenda. The troubles of high-profile animals such as the tiger and rhino grab public attention, while most people hardly see the point of worrying about insects or plants. But extinction is the one environmental calamity that is irreversible. As these lowly species disappear unnoticed, they take with them hard-won lessons of survival encoded in their genes over millions of years...
...natural resources. He is not sanguine about the medical establishment's inability to find a cure for AIDS: "It may just burn itself out the way the bubonic plague did in the London of 1665. But this tragic disease moves much more slowly. It might take a century to disappear." And wars and weapons continually remind him about the fragility of Spaceship Earth. But in the Asimovian view, that fragility is an echo of his personal history. He was felled by a heart attack in 1977 and underwent a triple coronary bypass in 1983. Manners and habits changed overnight. Although...