Word: pinching
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...door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes . . . Call Roy and have him come up to the house and awaken HRH at 10:15 a.m. sharp if HRH is not awake by that time. With eight thicknesses of Kleenex he is to pinch HRH's toes until he awakens, increasing the pressure each time...
...pocketbooks of physicians who treat Medicare patients. Fair enough, perhaps, but it would also have a detrimental impact on the elderly and retired who depend on a service that would be likely to decline in quality. Says Jack Meyer of the American Enterprise Institute: "There is no immediate financial pinch. But what you get is cheapened service...
...life of its own. The Administration has looked at savings from across the board, and not just at "necessary social programs." Savings are being sought from sources as disparate as farm price supports and "non-means-tested" veterans' medical coverage. Middle-class goodies, especially student aid, will feel the pinch as well, while much of the savings in Medicare are even now being realized by a cost-cutting incentive program which most experts laud as the most beneficial government program in decades. In short, while many particular ones are set to be gored, Reagan's oft-cited onslaught against...
Iran, whose major condition for peace has been Saddam Hussein's ouster, is also feeling the pinch of the stagnant conflict. In an effort to placate the populace, which is becoming increasingly unhappy with stringent wartime economic conditions, the Supreme Judicial Council two weeks ago designated special courts to try corrupt government officials and businessmen. Seventeen offenders are already on trial, with scores more expected to follow...
...Slaught. Wilcox who did not complete any of his 33 starts this year, got a second-inning run on an RBI-forceout by Marty Castillo and made it stand up, walking two and striking out eight in eight innings. Hernandez allowed the final hit, an infield single by pinch hitter Hal McRae with two out in the ninth...