Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Proposition 2 1/2 the property tax-cutting referendum, passed in November 1980, cities and town throughout the state were forced to cut back public services. When the Cambridge schools first felt the pinch, most of the cuts were made in the elementary schools "because of the recent extensive changes and problems at the high school." Albert Giroux, spokesman for the school committee faces a possible 15-percent reduction in its budget for the next academic year, teachers and administrators are gritting their teach in anticipation of far deeper cuts in high school programs...
...sanctity of salt slid toward superstition. The spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
...delivery capability for the atomic bomb that the Pakistanis are currently developing. Beyond simply antagonizing Pakistan's nuclear neighbor, India, the deal would make it that much easier for General Zia to lend nuclear weapons to some of his close Arab allies, like Iraq, if they were in a pinch...
Nearly a year after he took office, the nation over which Ronald Reagan presides is in a gloomy mood. Americans are worried about the state of their country, anxious about inflation, which they do not expect to ease soon, and feeling the pinch of a recession they fear may linger for a year or more...
Brew's association with Reagan and his staff dates back to last year, when he occasionally pinch-hit for Barrett on the Reagan campaign trail. Brew stood watch outside Reagan's Pacific Palisades home during the presidential transition period. Since then he has reported on the President's Inauguration, the attempted assassination, and his Thanksgiving at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara. "Reagan keeps a civilized 9-to-5 schedule and doesn't take off at the drop of a hat to strange places around the world," says Brew. "His aides may have bloodshot eyes, drawn...