Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passing a budget, thereby averting what would have been the second government shutdown since Columbus Day. After a bitter partisan fight, Congress struggled to reconcile House and Senate versions of a bill designed to cut $500 billion from the deficit over five years. The final plan was bound to extract more revenues from the most affluent taxpayers than the bipartisan proposal that was dumped by the House two weeks ago. But it was also certain to inflict pain on middle-income earners, who were already outraged at the lawmakers' willingness to tax them more heavily than the wealthiest Americans...
Still, a consensus was developing: raise cigarette, gasoline and alcohol taxes, extract more revenue from the wealthy through income tax surcharges, cut domestic spending and defense. The sticking point was Bush's cherished plan to reduce the tax on capital gains. But the political temperature was rising, heated by the crisis in the Persian Gulf. The threat of war dimmed the prospects for taxes on stock-market trades or energy consumption. Rising oil prices and the specter of new inflation even moved opportunistic House Republicans led by Newt Gingrich to call for new tax cuts. "Everyone," Darman said...
...priorities when it comes to personal hygiene. I imagine a group of old men locked up in a smoky room somewhere deciding what is "acceptable" and what is not. Their opinions are instilled in the national consciousness by an overzealous advertising industry itching (no pun intended) to extract a few bucks by fabricating social insecurities...
...lengthy extract in the Harvard Business Review prompted a fusillade from fervent free-traders. New Republic columnist (and TIME contributor) Michael Kinsley broadly hinted that Choate, despite his denials, was engaging in "McCarthyism" with "his easy accusations of disloyalty, his imagery of infection of the body politic, his woozy mixture of falsehoods, half-truths and exaggerations." Hobart Rowen, a Washington Post columnist, called Choate's theories "pure poppycock...
Rosenberg's strategy, devised with the help of Anderson, is to extract immune cells called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) from the tumors of melanoma patients. Rosenberg bathes the TILs in a solution of interleukin-2, a natural substance that invigorates them, and then exposes the TILs to re- engineered mouse leukemia retroviruses...