Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Bush has the equation wrong. The United States clearly must finance the investments in productivity and human resources that the President seeks-it simply lacks the will to do so. Adhering to his "read my lips" campaign pledge, Bush adamantly refuses to consider a tax increase or even a value-added tax on consumption, or to tax costly, non-means based entitlement programs like Social Security for the wealthy. He also refuses to consider putting a lid on popular tax breaks for the middle-class, such as mortgage-interest deductions...
...Freeze-drying human bodies, however, would be an expensive proposition -- about $15,000 to $18,000 apiece. Since there is no law in Florida against freeze-drying humans, however, all it would take for such a perpetual viewing chapel to take root, so to speak, would be a mortuary license, a corpse, someone living willing to shell out $15,000 to $18,000, and, of course, one of the machines...
Strangely enough, those people who have called Jeff to inquire about freeze- drying a human being have been asking not about a beloved, deceased relative but about themselves. They are people who are less interested in avoiding conventional burial and cremation than they are in striving for immortality...
...believe there can be a formula for justice stopping short of taking human life that won't be dismissed by politicians as too liberal. There must be a method for treating violent criminals toughly, even harshly, that won't simply be tossed off as too conservative. There can be no forgiveness, no compassion for the criminal who kills. He should face a barren and hopeless life of incarceration. Perhaps the 50 states should, together, build a giant maximum- security prison in the desert. Reinvent Dante's Inferno. Let its inhabitants languish and be forgotten by all Americans. Just...
...Senate probes new allegations about John Tower's drinking and sex life that could delay his confirmation. -- Flying solo on his first diplomatic mission, Dan Quayle voices support for human rights in El Salvador. -- Feeling voters' heat, Speaker Jim Wright changes strategy on congressional pay hikes. -- Had October's missiles flown, John Kennedy would have stayed home...