Word: ox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE...
...similar code were drawn up with right-wing imperatives in mind -- one banning unpatriotic, irreligious or sexually explicit expressions on campus -- the people framing Wisconsin-type rules would revert to their libertarian pasts. In this competition to suppress, is regard for freedom of expression just a matter of whose ox is getting gored at the moment? Does the left just get nervous about the Christian cross when Klansmen burn it, while the right will react only when Madonna flirts crucifixes between her thighs...
...flexible freeze program means somebody's ox is going to get gored," says Grandy. "People are saying we can't freeze entitlements and we can't touch Medicare, and we certainly can't touch Social Security. That's probably true. But the bottom line is the lion's share of our government spending goes to those benefits, and unless they address them some way, it's going to be damn difficult to balance a budget on remaining expenditures, including defense...
...knowing whose ox is going to be gored is making Congress uneasy, say House and Senate budget leaders. Until Bush announces his budget on February 9, members of Congress say they do not know from where the cuts will come...
...power, but the Conservatives might. Calling for a return to total apartheid and accusing Botha of betraying white Afrikaners, the Conservatives became the official opposition in Parliament last year. All the party's parliamentary seats are in Transvaal province, the northernmost region settled by the voortrekkers who drove their ox wagons across the veld to escape British rule 150 years ago, but last week the Conservatives challenged the National Party at the local level in all four of the country's provinces...