Word: jolt
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...business tax cuts would increase the deficit by another $40 billion, leaving a daunting Government shortfall of $90 billion. Even if Reagan succeeded in persuading Congress to cut $50 billion in expenditures, the deficit would still be $40 billion. The result of that heavy spending might be yet another jolt to prices. Said Pechman: "Reagan may find that inflation has run away from him before he even gets started on his plans...
...only touch of playacting; otherwise the drama of the speech came from its subject and context. Both were important enough to justify fully the President's deep concern with sounding the right tone. His task was to begin rallying public support for a program designed to jolt the U.S. out of what he called "the worst economic mess since the Great Depression." Though details will not be spelled out until next week, enough is known already to make it obvious that the program marks a drastic change in national direction. It combines slashes in federal spending so deep...
...blend of freshness and classicism is the prescription then, with a jolt of celebrity chemistry and maybe some dark hair for a change. And where will the new decade find this miraculous mixture? It is unsettling to realize, but it is true beyond doubt, that the most striking face in the modeling business as the '80s take hold is that of a 15-year veteran of the game who is exactly 15 years old. Brooke Shields (see accompanying story) has been on the cover of Vogue three times in the past year, shrieking with chic. Brooke Shields, coltish and flustered...
...think the consumer is in for a little bit of a jolt when he sees the retail price increases this fall. But we've got to start to get some of the $80 billion investment back...
...machine that may eventually avert many such deaths. Their device: a mini-defibrillator, only about as big as a cigarette pack, that can be implanted in the patient's body, where it continually monitors the heart and, if attacks occur, automatically orders up charges of electricity to jolt the heart back into a normal rhythm...