Word: neutralized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-term steps. To deal with the immediate crisis, he says, three antirecession measures are needed: 1) quicker spending on highway construction to provide 45,000 new jobs; 2) a higher ceiling on Federal Housing Administration mortgage guarantees to aid half a million first-home buyers; 3) a revenue-neutral tax- rate cut averaging $350 a year for middle-class families, to be paid for by increasing the tax burden on those who earn more than $200,000 a year. Most other Democrats favor a child-care tax exemption instead of Clinton's prescription, but only about half the population...
...Philippines, Douglas MacArthur's strange paralysis lasted only that first day -- and remains a mystery still. One theory is that MacArthur misunderstood Washington's orders against risking any military provocation of Japan. Another is that he and Philippines President Manuel Quezon thought the Philippines might somehow remain neutral in the erupting Pacific war. Still another theory is that MacArthur temporarily suffered the kind of breakdown that sometimes afflicts commanders in crisis -- as happened to Stalin when the Germans invaded in June...
...African National Congress last week endorsed the South African National Olympic Committee's decision to replace the leaping springbok with a neutral flag featuring Olympic rings on a background of silver, blue, brown and green. But President F.W. de Klerk charged that the committee was "abusing sport and culture for political ends...
...Everything she does has to be planned. When we go shopping, she always knows exactly what she's shopping for--pants in a neutral pattern...a low cut spandex top for going out," says Ellie Grossman '95, who has been a friend of Finkelstein's since first grade...
Some searchers, including Horowitz, have suggested that there are "magic frequencies," common frequencies which would be likely to be used by extraterrestrials eager to communicate. One of these is 1420 megahertz, which is the neutral hydrogen frequency. As Arnold explains, "No matter where you are in the universe, you'll know about hydrogen. Even if you have four eyes...