Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election, the Reagan campaign launched a $5 million dollar television advertising blitz aimed at discrediting liberals. A bloated, white-haired, red-faced politician--an obvious caricature of then-Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill--was shown trying to drive a sputtering jalopy running out of gas. In 1984, the Republicans successfully added the "tax-and-spend label" to the Democratic image, and liberals began to call themselves "neo-liberals" and "progressives...
...second principle is that spending cuts should come from subsidies to the middle class, not genuine Government investment or programs that aid the poor. Obvious targets are farm programs, Social Security and our disproportionate share of the defense of Europe and Japan, which is a subsidy to middle-class foreigners. But merely to list these is to build a monument to hopelessness. That's why, for all the candidates' bluster, salvation will probably come, if at all, on the revenue side...
...ordered rain for the day, which is always good," Russo said of the September 10th, Lafayette-Holy Cross game. "Wiley is not a real big kid with big hands which means a wet football will hurt his game. It's obvious, too, that he doesn't have the same kind of receivers he had last year...
...Chevy Impala into a tree and broke his neck. In the hospital he learned to drive an electric wheelchair and to type using a mouth stick. But he was 27 and a graduate student at the University of Colorado before he got his IBM PC. "It had become painfully obvious that I could no longer match my peers simply by being bright," he recalls. "The computer opened all sorts of doors for me." Now Young is earning a Ph.D. in biology, working as a laboratory consultant and writing more than he ever did when...
...benefits of the Pepsi endorsement are obvious. Granted, it lacks the tradition and lore of the Coca-Cola name, but Pepsi has that crucial newness about it, an attribute sure to lure baby boomers to the fold...