Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest assured that any tax increase sent to me will be V.O.A.--veto on arrival." On a visit to St. Louis the next day, Reagan's motorcade pulled up to a side door of his hotel to bypass 150 angry farmers who oppose his budget priorities. Adding to their pain: some 75,000 letters from the Farmers Home Administration began going out last week to borrowers who have fallen behind on loan repayments, warning them to start catching up within 30 days if they hope to avoid eventual foreclosure...
...much cutting to be done, and more than half of the budget (Social Security, other entitlements and interest on the national debt) legally or politically off limits, almost every discretionary spending program will be at risk. Among the areas of greatest controversy and of the most severe potential pain...
...year face higher payments out of their own pockets: as much as $492 for the first day's stay, vs. $400 previously. Reagan wants to cut up to $5 billion more from health-care spending, and Congress may have to accept a figure almost as high. Part of the pain will inevitably fall on the elderly: in Reagan's proposal they would have to pay $18.70 a month in premiums, vs. $15.50 now. Shortening hospital stays may be desirable, but the process throws a greater burden on nursing-home and home health-care services. "But more home-care visits...
...demands that other countries ease the oil glut by cutting back production. But most rivals have refused. If no agreement is reached, says De Vries, "you could see oil prices go down very, very substantially, to the low teens and below that." The big question is how much economic pain the kingdom is willing to inflict on its rivals. "I don't think Saudi Arabia will want to be the hardliner and bring down countries and companies and banks," said De Vries...
...wide open spaces of the Bronx, where her household is a turnstile of transient relatives. Simon's father plugs along in the shoe-design business and resents the energy and inquisitiveness of his wife and oldest daughter. Kate learns early that men can be a primary cause of pain and guilt...