Word: knotted
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: With the spending portion of the balanced budget deal finished business in both houses of Congress, the House is set to venture back onto politically uncertain ground tonight with a vote to slash taxes over the next five years by $85 billion and tie the knot on the plan to balance the budget for the first time in 30 years. Under the Republican-proposed measure, Congress would tighten its tax belt by offering American families a $500 per child tax credit, across-the-board reductions in capital gains and estate taxes and a $10,000 deduction for education...
...almost never. Last week three generations of the Shabazz family were bound into a single knot of misery. In a New York City hospital, Shabazz was in extremely critical condition with third-degree burns over 80% of her body, the result of a fire inside her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment. Police say the blaze was set by her grandson, who had lived with her for most of the past two years and returned in April after a brief, rocky stay with his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Friends and neighbors say Malcolm, 12, wanted to live again with his mother Qubilah...
...Bears, fresh off a victory over 3rd ranked Syracuse and a close loss to 1st ranked Princeton, tried to struggle back when they scored two unanswered goals in the first four minutes of the second period to knot the score at two apiece...
...Crimson refused to make it easy for the Hawks--they managed to exhibit a little of their 12th-ranked form when they reeled off four unanswered goals to knot the score at five at the end of the first half...
JAMES BROWN knows how to make a pitch. But the godfather of soul strained to hit the right note when he phoned during a taping of the Rolonda talk show. "Darling," he told host ROLONDA WATTS, "you know I'm crazy about you. So how about tying the knot?" The stunned Watts, not accustomed to airing her own confrontations on camera, told Brown she'd talk to him later. Watts, 37, became buddies with the widowed singer, 68, after he appeared on her show in January, and before long he was sporting a Rolonda jacket. But all that good feeling...