Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support for affirmative action and taken a much harder line on illegal immigration. He had led the fight to repeal the ban on assault weapons, then shifted positions a year later. He had morphed into a movie critic, of films he hadn't seen. He had called Steve Forbes' flat tax "snake oil" in February but by August had become a born-again supply-sider. "I'm willing to be another Ronald Reagan, if that's what you want...
...remain a deficit hawk at the same time." Weeks later, though, Dole intimated to a vanquished rival from the primaries, publisher Steve Forbes, that he was still not altogether convinced. When they met in late May, Dole admitted being impressed by the excitement Forbes had aroused preaching a flat tax--which Dole had publicly called "snake oil." But, said Dole, to sell his own tax plan effectively he still needed to "internalize...
...repeal the 1990 and 1993 tax increases. Forbes pushed hard for this one, largely because it would strip away three tax brackets that had been added in those years and reduce the number of tax rates to only two. That would be a step toward Forbes' cherished flat...
...does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there's also an urgent I'm So Tired, still one of Lennon's most potent songs--ennui, annoyance, panic and plea in two minutes flat. The mood of these sessions is serious fun. Songs tail into parody as the lads assume the IDs of sham bands: Ricky and the Red Streaks, or Los Paranoias ("Come on, enjoy...
...problem for art-dictionary compilers is simple in its essence but in fact appallingly complex: the explosion of art-historical information in the past half-century. If you graphed its quantity, the line would run almost flat from Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century to John Ruskin in the mid-19th. But in the 20th century, and especially in the past 40 years, the line has gone almost vertical...