Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partisan politics can get us into Social Security, both parties admit, it in serious trouble. The cost of the program has grown enormously: since 1960 the proportion of the federal budget it consumes has doubled. So far, shuffling money between Medicare, disability insurance, and Social Security has kept the latter program afloat. But by mid-1983, if not extended, the law allowing such tactics will expire. And by 1984, all three funds will be bankrupt. Indeed, the system is projected to run a cumulative deficit of more that $150 billion in the next seven years...
California's deficit is trifling compared with Oregon's, which will be at least $400 million and could reach $1.6 billion (the latter total would be more than 50% of the state's $3 billion budget). Reason: Oregon's lumber-based economy has all but collapsed in the housing slump. With unemployment at 10.1% and personal income and business taxes plummeting (the state has no sales tax), legislators will meet in January, their third attempt in a year to devise emergency measures. Possible solutions: a stiff income tax surcharge and new "sin" taxes on cigarettes...
Bette Midler's new film, Jinxed, like countless others churned out every year belongs in this latter heap not really had, just completely for gettable Quick as you can say, "Network Television Predict, it will probably make its final bow as a Wednesday Night Movie of the Week. The problem is, it belonged on the tube in the first place Like too many other movies today, Jinsed resembles nothing so much as the average T.V. movie, smoothly made, predictable, bland, and incapable of arousing any interest or excitement whatsoever...
...instances Sunday, the delicate balance struck by Colantuono between purposefulness and pettiness threatened to tip to the latter. But displaying a sternness rarely seen from him in the Student Assembly, where he was something of a chatterbox, he maintained control of the meeting. Frequently imploring the council not to dawdle, he desplayed' an unrivaled familiarity with the government's constitution and Robert's Rules...
...victim of a weak national economy and a line of strong women. The latter included his grandmother, an un challenged matriarch of Morrisonville, Va.; his wife, an orphanage-hardened shopgirl; and especially his mother, who had a "passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to 'make something of my self.' " She had him, at a tender age, delivering newspapers, flogging the Saturday Evening Post and, in preparation for a career in show business, taking banjo lessons...