Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea for the get-together came to Kennedy Strategist Robert Shrum and Anderson Adviser Lawrence Tribe when they met over breakfast in Cambridge, Mass., last week. They agreed that both campaigns needed some kind of jolt. Why not do it jointly? The candidates quickly endorsed the notion...
What Reagan did often ran contrary to his campaign oratory. Instead of cutting taxes, he solved the budget deficit with the largest tax increase in California's history: a $1 billion jolt, and that was only the beginning. By the time he left office eight years later, he had added $21 billion to the state's tax revenues. Under Reagan, the state's income tax rose from a maximum of 7% to 11% for individuals, and from 5.5% to 9% for corporations. He also increased the state sales tax from 4% to 6%. Facing a state legislature...
...past 4,500 years, Geological Survey scientists predicted in 1978 that the symmetrical peak, visible from Portland 40 miles to the southwest, would blow before the year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that was heard 40 miles away. Said Barry Blair, a logger cutting timber twelve miles from the peak: "There were two little booms and then one great big one. It got real smoky and we discovered...
Thus it might have come as something of a jolt for the Atlantic's readers to learn that their august, old-Boston publication will soon be in the hands of a smooth non-Yankee who has made millions in real estate development. By May, after a few minor details are worked out, Mortimer Zuckerman, 42, will take over as president and chairman of the Atlantic Company, which includes the magazine and its book publishing division, the Atlantic Monthly Press.* Says he: "I hope to combine the magazine's very special place in American letters with a solid financial...
...airhitcher's take-off is exhilirating--a rush of relief and smugness accompanying the first jolt and momentary weightlessness. His dress is required--tie, with an Oxford shirt and pressed pants. His approach is crucial--an earnest, American look-in-the-eye and the words, "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back east as fast as possible. May I have a ride?" The outcome varies from a 48-hour wait in the burning sterility of the Salt Lake City International Airport to a quick hop across America in three aircraft...