Word: gilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trillion budget for fiscal year 1990. The commitment to comity with Congress ruled out the Reagan- era approach of proposing draconian, and politically unrealistic, cuts in domestic spending that would be immediately declared "dead on arrival." The familiar device of using overly optimistic economic assumptions to gild the budget was, of course, part of the Administration arsenal. The President's Office of Management and Budget predicts that economic growth alone will reduce the deficit to $127 billion in 1990, yet Congress pegs the number at a more realistic $146 billion. But even pie-in-the-sky scenarios cannot trim...
...merely operated that way, has always demanded of its followers a certain capacity for illusion. Exalting the athletes we pay to play for us over the ones they pay to play for them is tricky. It requires an ability to squint a little and forget a lot, to gild things...
...initiative and the Cabinet officers who strongly opposed it." While he made efforts to keep those officers and Reagan informed, he "was not always successful." At the same time, he tried to be protective of the President. In November, he drafted an account of the affair that sought to "gild the President's motives...
...tastefully schematic tenement-surrounded lot whose metal underpinnings glow coppery in the retrospective glow of the lighting. Every so often a speech, or an unguarded exchange of glances, or a single character, leaps into relief, silhouetted against Alfred's loving gaze. Nostalgia and a craftsman's close attention gild each piece...
...sustained tension or a cohesive enough plot, Fran's love and courage, however deeply feld, however hardly come by, remain abstractions. Like the exquisitely wrought texture of cultural nostalgia and theatrical illusion that form the basis of Alfred's style, they ache, desperately, for a more visible framework to gild...