Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious White House attack on budget shortfalls will wait until after the election. In the State of the Union address, Reagan intends to repeat his long-held view that deficits must eventually be cut by drastic reductions in Government spending. In the budget, however, he will propose only minor changes that net out to a reduction in planned outlays of a piddling $4 billion, or less than two-thirds of 1 % of nonmilitary spending. Among other things, the Administration has dropped a proposal to make Medicare patients pay more of the early costs of hospitalization in return for Government assumption...
...capital, guaranteed the complete success of the Games and then went off to give his staff a dressing down described as "thunderous" on some unspecified subject. "I believe we are completely ready to host the Games," insists one official. Still it was true that there were a few minor shortcomings. Sarajevo's new Holiday Inn had been invaded by a tribe of rats with the instincts of Albanian terrorists, and they were giving ground only slowly before the plates of poisoned food left in the halls by the staff...
Princip swallowed his cyanide pill, but it did him little harm. Neither did the authorities who convicted him of murder but could not execute him because he was a minor. Sentenced to 20 years, he died of tuberculosis in prison in 1918. By then, the war that started with a punitive Austrian attack on Serbia had bled all of Europe white. But Princip's deed did finally achieve its purpose. In the redrawing of maps that followed the war, the Austro-Hungarian empire dissolved into fragments; both Serbia and Bosnia were included in the new state of Yugoslavia...
...hockey player might conceivably raise his price on the basis of one heroic fortnight. Mike Eruzione, the bridge painter and minor leaguer who retrieved his amateur status to captain the 1980 team, has made something of a cottage industry out of these moments. There was a quick Coke commercial for Jim Craig, the goalie everyone wrapped in a flag, but the flavor did not last. American Express has just revived the 1980 team...
...Alpine skiers, figure skaters and hockey players, another breed of home-grown Olympians will drive themselves beyond reason in strange and dangerous events without so much as a pat on the back or, for most, even a faint hope of gold, silver or bronze medals. U.S. athletes in the "minor" winter sports of biathlon, Nordic skiing, bobsled, luge and ski jumping have won only one silver and one bronze since 1956. But despite archaic equipment, meager training and, in most cases, pitifully small funding, they persist against the lavishly bestowed resources of Scandinavia, East Germany and the U.S.S.R. And this...