Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quayle wins, the history of the '80s will be written in short sentences with lots of simple words. America is good. You can do anything you set your mind to. Hello, my name is Dan Quayle. (Note: If Quayle wins, history will become the gut major...
MICHAEL BOLTON: SOUL PROVIDER (Columbia). Singer-songwriter Bolton, a white rhythm-and-bluesman from New Haven, Conn., finally hits his stride here. High point: Georgia on My Mind, on which his uncanny four-octave range and gut- wrenching phrasing give Ray Charles a serious run for the money...
...gut feeling, you know, one of those instinctive things. I followed him to Chicago where he was trying to help Boston overcome the road jinx that plagued the team last season...
...stance." Bush's attitude began to change when he visited Poland and Hungary in July. His hosts impressed on him that their survival, not to mention their success, depended on Gorbachev's. Bush commented afterward that he had understood the connection intellectually but now he understood it "in his gut...
Such high jinks are symptomatic of much broader problems that have both caused and accelerated the emasculation of Government. Washington has been at a political impasse since Reagan's first term, when Congress -- Republicans as well as Democrats -- refused to let him gut popular domestic programs to pay for his huge tax cuts. Instead, the Government decided to have it both ways: tax reduction as well as big boosts in defense spending and increasing middle- class entitlements (notably Social Security and farm supports), offset to a small degree by cuts in programs for the poor. The resulting deficit spending...