Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spending cuts, proposed by Budget Director David Stockman, were presented to Reagan in a thick loose-leaf book. Although the details were not made public, the outlines became clear after a series of high-level White House meetings late last week. The Stockman plan would demand sacrifices from a broad range of citizens in order to uphold Reagan's campaign pledge not to raise taxes, cut Social Security or countenance much slowdown in the U.S. military buildup...
...graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. Alice Tryon recalls that one of her professors directed her toward research "counting the hairs on a maple leaf," which she says was "a real bore...
...Mondale book was a black loose-leaf binder bulging with explications of some 20 topics, complete with sample questions and proposed answers. The Democratic camp expected almost all of Sunday night's questions to fall into four broad categories: arms control, Star Wars, management of the Defense Department, and world hot spots, especially Central America and the Middle East. During rehearsals, Mondale was more concerned about his delivery than about mastering the facts...
Another sale looms at Reyers Shoe Store in Sharon, Pa., and that is a little like saying another leaf is falling from another tree in autumn. Reyers has sales almost constantly. Next week, for example, is the fall sale. There are more sales before Thanksgiving and before Christmas. Finally comes the January clearance, in which everything that did not get sold in the previous sales goes on sale...
Another fig leaf is that neither the state nor any of its officers, including teachers, are to write the prayer. Well then, how will the toddlers know what to say? It appears there is to be some kind of rotalional system whereby the Catholic will bring in his prayer one day, the Baptist the next, then the Jew, and so on. This is an exercise not in religion but in anthropology. If public prayer means anything, it means the joining together of individuals in common devotion. This ecclesiastical musical chairs, however, both trivializes religion and offends it, by asking children...