Word: meeting
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...bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, but we didn't lose a thing." Her porch, however, had "gone out to meet two little old ladies" arriving for dinner...
...national politicians unwilling to cut government spending in much the same way that patriotism is called the last refuge of scoundrels. The obscure word, which looks like a refugee from a crossword puzzle, means seizure, and that is what happened last week. President Bush directed all federal agencies to meet the budget-deficit- reduction targets specified by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law by imposing $16.1 billion in across-the-board spending cuts. Worthy domestic-spending programs such as subsidized housing were cut the same 5.3% as pork-barrel projects like the Agricultural Extension Service. Under sequestration, the Defense Department faces...
Trouble started in the spring, when congressional leaders and the Bush Administration began putting together a deal. The President's goal was to keep his read-my-lips campaign promise of "no new taxes." Congressional leaders wanted to appear to meet deficit-reduction targets without cutting any politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...
...reforming the budget process, Budget Committee chairman Jim Sasser of Tennessee said, "Gramm- Rudman is teetering on the verge of becoming more a part of the problem than a part of the solution." Sasser says the law has the Government keeping two sets of books: one devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which is a useful fiction to give the illusion of progress," and another that shows the real deficit. The real deficit for fiscal 1990 will not be $110 billion but more like $230 billion. Fancy bookkeeping like a $65 billion loan from the Social Security trust fund...
Some soldiers make immediate and tragic exits. Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north...