Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least half a dozen specific actions. There will almost certainly be no general tax increase right now, partly because Johnson believes that such a hike would hurt Democrats in the coming elections and partly because he feels that asking for it now would give Republicans an excuse to gut some of his Great Society programs. Instead, the President will probably call for a temporary suspension of the 7% investment credit to business, a move that would cool off the record expansion in plant and equipment spending...
...best friend (John Leyton) who idolizes him. He persuades Leyton to pay half the rent on a seedy flat, uses it to enjoy Leyton's girl friend (Jennifer Hilary) and finally seduces Leyton's divorced mother (Jennifer Jones). Shortly afterward, The Idol explodes with the kind of gut-clutching Greek passion that seems altogether alien to the cool contemporary scene set forth in the rest of the picture...
...scrapping about sex, the actors group themselves in front of sea-blue projections and admit quite openly that their plan is insane, although piracy, in Scenarist Serling's language, "fills a need." Sinatra speaks of love in such lines as "She's so deep in my gut, we breathe together"-and indeed, all the dialogue seems to come floating by in bottles from a flotilla of terrible old movies that have shipped out, sailed over the horizon and vanished. But is such a voyage fit for a Queen...
...Administration's program. Assisted by Chairman William Fulbright, who turned against his Foreign Relations Committee's own bill, an assortment of doves, hawks, fiscal conservatives, unreconstructed Lyndon haters and those who simply doubt that aid is what it used to be formed a strange alliance to gut the perennially unpopular economic aid appropriation...
Such a vote represents a sound attitude toward educational policy. The pressure for grades already distorts the educational process here, inducing many ambitious students to opt for gut courses and to treat all courses simply as obstacles on the way to a degree and a graduate school. To avoid adding to the pressure of grades, the University has in the past wisely ignored the demands of many institutions and programs which request class rank information from applicants...