Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loudest laments about the budget are coming from the cities and states. The President would entirely eliminate federal revenue sharing, forcing state and local governments to assume greater responsibility and power, a guiding tenet of the Administration's philosophy since its earliest days. The end of the 13-year-old program of revenue sharing would save $3.5 billion. According to Governors and state legislators, the death of revenue sharing would wound states and localities where they can least afford it, in basic outlays for such services as police, education and sanitation. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, whose state...
...vegetable and my desert. And I don't even gotta do the dishes.") Barely fighting the law of inertia, he always seems earnestly preoccupied with doing absolutely nothing. Eddie, Willie's sidekick, is defined by his lack of a personality. He capitulates to whomever speaks the loudest (usually gravel-voiced Willie) and even looks like a watercolor version of Willie's original...
...LOUDEST WHISTLING IN THE DARK: Jane Fonda, Linda Evans and Joan Collins being glad they're over...
...loudest cheers over the brightening outlook came from Wall Street, where stocks had been sliding. On Tuesday the bulls broke loose again: the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 34.78 points, to record its best gain since Aug. 3; and more than 169 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, making it the sixth heaviest trading day ever. Said Harry Laubscher, a Paine Webber market analyst: "The bears had Thanksgiving, the bulls Christmas." After the big jump, profit takers moved in, and the market dropped for three straight days. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones average ended the week...
...superintendent of public instruction, voiced the wide spread frustration with the textbook dilemma when he asked a convocation of 43 educators and 50 representatives from 16 publishing houses, "Who is in charge?" The answer is everybody and nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake...