Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Advisers were pressing him to agree to a tax increase to reduce what was already looming as a menacing deficit. To Reagan that was heresy. But he had to say something in his 1983 State of the Union address. During a round of golf in Palm Springs, Calif., while the President was on vacation, Secretary of State George Shultz, a trained economist, mentioned academic studies about the advantages of a flat tax (that is, everybody paying the same rate). Reagan, ever on the alert for a plausible way to cut tax rates further, inserted in his State of the Union...
Britain's "Iron Lady" was on the mend last week. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher underwent an hourlong operation on her right hand to correct Dupuytren's contracture, a condition in which her pinky was drawn toward the palm. If left untreated, the ailment can cause deformity and loss of use of the hand...
...themes of their lives, their love affair having developed out of their high-velocity work on The Terminator. And, in fact, they do not have much in common in their backgrounds. The daughter of a well-to-do private investor, she was raised mainly in Palm Springs, Calif. A confessed academic overachiever, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford. He was born in Canada, the son of an electrical engineer, and ended up in Brea, Calif., where he spent five semesters at local colleges, dropping out and eventually drifting into Corman's orbit. As adolescents, she was a reader, while...
...performed Almost Like Being in Love. Julie Andrews sang Lerner's favorite non-Lerner showstopper, If Love Were All, from Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said, "Few men in our melancholy age brought so much pleasure to so many people." Loewe, 85 and living in Palm Springs, Calif., sent a letter addressing Lerner. "It won't be long," he said, "before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there...
...have no time to go to the beach, Trigano is working on bringing the beach to them. He is starting to build a series of indoor "tropical spaces" in urban centers. Since May a prototype has been open just outside Vienna, complete with waves that wash sandy beaches, palm trees, controlled heat and artificial sun. Trigano has plans to install these pseudo paradises in New York City, Paris, London and Tokyo...