Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funding measure hammered out by a Senate-House conference, even though Stockman was one of those who successfully urged Reagan to veto it. Said G.O.P. Senator Mark Andrews of North Dakota: "We all thought we had done the job. But Stockman found that he was using the wrong mirror, so he got himself another mirror...
...sent Tories to Westminster since 1918. In the last election, the Tories' victory margin was 19,000 votes. Williams not only won by 5,000 votes; she captured 49.1% of the tally, compared with 39.8% for the Tories and 9.5% for Labor. Proclaimed London's Daily Mirror with unabashed admiration: "Shirley the First...
...scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...hold on a doggone minute," a proud Crimson student mumbles, momentarily regaining pseudo-consciousness. "How do you know Yale is harder than Harvard?" Well, this is simply the wrong question to ask. Mike has been waiting for two years to get another crack at this one, and his bathroom mirror has gotten tired of the rehearsed exaggerated gestures, professorial air, and stubborn righteousness. He goes on for nearly 20 minutes of sophistry, ending as you knew he would. "Harvard may be harder to get into," he says, conceding the obvious, only to catch you with a sucker punch. "Yale wants...
...hide certain forlorn echoes. Stockman's remark that supply-side theory served as a "Trojan Horse" for old Republican doctrines could hardly prove devastating in a world where ideas and careful thinking count more than images and the impression they create. His charges are hardly new, for they mirror perfectly the opinions of more than a few Democratic Congressmen and liberal economists. Republicans had heard such complaints all summer, and the import of such attacks could only pale in contrast to the drubbing the Reagan program received in the nation's financial markets...