Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke's double-edged magnetism...
Like the bathtub, a telephone can be found in nearly every American home, and, until now, it has been equally taken for granted. Yet, all of a sudden, consumers are being urged to jettison their old view of the phone as a utilitarian item and look at it as a fancy new entry on a shopping list. Local Bell System companies, as well as AT&T's brand-new baby, American Bell Inc., are beseeching customers to buy telephones instead of leasing them, and even to plug more of them into their homes. Department, specialty and discount stores...
...showdown over the continuing resolution was averted at the last moment when a House-Senate conference committee agreed to jettison a "jobs bill" that both chambers had attached to the measure. The Democratic House had voted $5.4 billion for the program, and the Republican Senate had approved a $1.2 billion figure. But Reagan, with much justification, argued that both versions were motley collections of local pork-barrel projects masquerading as jobs programs. He threatened to veto the entire continuing resolution, an act that would have shut down much of the Federal government last week, unless the job amendments were scuttled...
...poll finds substantial public opposition to the 10% tax slash. Fully 47% of Americans prefer to cancel the cut if their altruism would help balance the federal budget, while 37% want the cut and 16% are undecided. A higher proportion of Republicans (53%) than Democrats (45%) would like to jettison the tax reduction...
...overburdened lawyers who represent them. The Georgia branch of the LSC has lost 100 of its 300 staff members. Offices in some towns have been closed; others are served only by circuit-riding lawyers. Community Legal Services of Philadelphia has decided that in order to stay afloat, it must jettison eviction cases, small-claims actions, child support and custody cases, contested divorces and many spouse-abuse complaints. The office still represents many clients appealing disqualifications from the Social Security disability program and wins back benefits for two-thirds of them...