Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House had come under fire over a provision that would have increased on October 1 the price-support level for milk to $11.10 for each 100 pounds. It would raise consumer costs by a few cents a gallon at most and cost the government $145 million by congressional estimate. The Agriculture Department put the price tag at $300 million...
Both the House and Senate versions would cancel a 50-cent price-support cut set for January 1 and the plan to actually increase the level was denounced by Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng as well as an array of business and farm groups that often are allies of the dairy industry on such matters...
...that lends itself so naturally to metaphors of germ and birth, decline and death? Some might point to the statistical exactitude of the season, the precise accounting of hits and errors, the joyous regeneration of starting each spring with a clean slate and an unblemished record. On the playing level, baseball is the meritocracy to which the rest of America might aspire -- a pristine universe where performance matters more than pedigree and connections are what occur when a hurled spheroid encounters a swung hickory stick...
...concerned. It is going to be tough. Dukakis . . . has never been exposed to this level of American politics. And it is my thesis that therefore he has never been tested. Every little frailty is in focus. I've been there. I feel quite relaxed about it. ((But)) Dukakis is not prepared for what he is going to get into...
When his hopeless and long-forgotten 1976 campaign for the presidency ended -- and even his last-ditch, favorite-hopes were thoroughly dashed in his home state by Jimmy Carter -- Lloyd Bentsen had still not passed the asterisk level in national name recognition. Twelve years later, at 67, the senior Senator from Texas remains largely unknown outside his home state and Washington. His career has played out in the boardrooms of Houston and the hideaway offices of the Capitol. The backslapping style of a Lyndon Johnson or a John Connally, two of his early supporters, is totally foreign to this patrician...