Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet its budget goals, the Administration will have to reduce the remaining programs something like 10% across the board; that means painful slices into programs that have already been slashed deeply, including federal aid to education and health. Such anguished decisions might have been avoided if the Administration had not pushed Congress into enacting such a deep cut in taxes. But that die has been cast, and there is no way now to balance the budget without pain and uproar . -By George J. Church. Reported by Douglas Brew and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...present pain and future lack of faith. A sizable part of the President's problem stems from the fact that the most vigorous critics of Reaganomics are focused on the short run: Congressmen worried about re-election next year, brokers buying and selling stocks minute by minute, businessmen who need loans...
...sowed many of the seeds of the current disillusionment by his boundless campaign promises and early, far too rosy economic predictions. Rather than adopting a Churchillian posture and admitting that it would take sacrifice and patience by all Americans to set the economy right, Reagan has steadily underplayed the pain involved. During last year's presidential campaign, he pledged that strong growth, less unemployment, lower inflation and a restoration of American military might were all just over his supply-side horizon...
...Adventurous directors snapped the straight spine of traditional drama into a series of vertebral vignettes. The standard comedy structure, which had kept stage and screen humming from Labiche to Lubitsch, gave way to anthologies of slapstick punctuated by expletives. The story became so much dead air between explosions of pain and laughter. And so the question arises: Does anyone in movies still care about structure...
Some localities are spared the pain of cuts now by having assiduously avoided depending on federal handouts for day-to-day operations. In Summerville, S.C. (pop. 6,300), for example, the town received $200,000 of their $1.4 million budget from Washington last year. They promptly spent the money not on operating costs but on new police, fire and sanitation equipment. Says Town Administrator John F. Wilbanks: "We decided long ago we weren't going to rely on the Federal Government to pay for this town precisely because what they give us they could just as easily take away...