Word: overshot
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...essential to cut the size of the deficit, even if that can be done only by raising taxes. Since January, Stockman has sliced $38.7 billion from the fiscal 1981 and 1982 spending packages that Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter. But the 1981 budget that ended Sept. 30 still overshot the President's $55.6 billion forecast by more than $2 billion...
...muttered, "They're firing away like madmen. Let's hope they'll use up all their ammunition." Lieut. Jorge, a squad commander, struggled to set up a 60-mm mortar while his men fired M79 grenade launchers at the enemy gunners. When the first mortar shell overshot its target, a taunting cry echoed from the guerrillas' hilltop position: "Come and get us, you queer cowards...
...Vice President George Bush on the wisdom of across-the-board tax slashing--"It's voodoo economics." He adds that the witch doctor-in-chief at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. will eventually be haunted by his do-all potions. Tsongas predicts that the Republicans will not realize that they have overshot the public's call for economic responsibility until it is too late, and "we have decontrol and deregulation and all these cuts, and the average American gets his heating bill, and it's gone up double, and then he remembers that the president said inflation is all the cost...
...being good in half his assignment and not quite so good in the other: he is a fine father but a wayward villain. He has apparently sought to create the same broad, almost campy mannerisms Cyril Ritchard had in the original version, but, perhaps through bad direction, he has overshot his mark. As a result, his Cap tain Hook is almost effeminate, modeled less on Ritchard and more on Hermione Gingold. It is perhaps a too original interpretation...
During Burns' last year, the Federal Reserve constantly overshot or undershot its targets, for reasons that no one seems fully to understand. The Ml growth rate swung crazily from almost 14% in one month to nearly zero in another, and the gyrations confused and alarmed moneymen. Miller aims for more stability by not pushing down wildly on the pedal or slamming on the brakes in one month to correct the previous month's error...