Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painful surgery begins next month, when the White House and Capitol Hill begin looking for $50 billion in savings. Under Gramm-Rudman, this year some 70% of all federal spending, including sacred cows like Social Security and antipoverty programs like food stamps, is protected from the budget ax. At least half the budget will be protected in future years. That, of course, means deeper cuts in everything else, from environmental protection to federal housing subsidies...
...night TV ("It slices! It dices! It really, really works!"). On the floor, some prominent legislators were scornful. Gramm-Rudman, huffed Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, "is just about the dumbest piece of legislation I have seen in my 15 years on Capitol Hill." O'Neill himself warned, "Wait until you get to 1987 and have to cut $55 billion. Wait until you hear the American people." Certainly, the cries of lobbyists will be heard loudly on the Hill as interest groups scramble to protect their favorite federal programs...
...Richard Gephardt, the Missouri Democrat who has made tax reform his major cause. But Reagan, who grew increasingly angry as he mulled over the G.O.P. defections, ordered his lieutenants to try to revive the moribund bill last week. Said Treasury Secretary James Baker as he headed off to Capitol Hill to cajole and arm-twist, "It ain't over till it's over...
...episodes from its earlier incarnation, it seems far fresher and more vital than The Twilight Zone. No supernatural morality plays here; just some deft storytelling and a refreshingly sardonic view of human nature. Hitchcock characters are greedy, vengeful and nasty (Martin Sheen, for instance, as a dissolute, over-the-hill actor who kills a young rival), and good people as well as bad are subject to the capriciousness of fate...
...Sinai Peninsula, the troopers died in the bleak brush and deep chill of Newfoundland when their chartered DC-8 jet failed to sustain its takeoff from Gander International Airport. The blue- and-white plane rose less than 1,000 ft., then smashed, tail first, into a small hill, disintegrating in flames about a half-mile from the end of the runway...