Word: plain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business system works. Those theories diverge in large part over just how much the huge deficits should be feared. The view that seems to be winning is that the Administration should concentrate on holding down deficits by plugging for what are euphemistically called "revenue-enhancement measures" or, in plain English, tax increases. Reagan has ruled out any reduction or delay in the 25%, three-year cut in income tax rates that he bulled through Congress last summer. Thus his aides are floating ideas for raising other taxes: excise (sales) taxes on liquor, tobacco and gasoline, and taxes on some specific...
...women's lightweight crew team are extremely fond of M and Ms, of all skinnifying foods. On the weekend of October 11, the members of the crew selected to compete in the Women's Invitational Regatta in South Hadley. Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL says. "After weigh-in, anything is game for eating." The crew, which has 130 pounds as a maximum weight limit, usually is chaned to cans of tuna fish and Tab in the spring to meet the scale's demands--and that...
...middle of a vast and desolate plain in Mexico, by the side of the long road stretching from Merida to Chichen Itza, stands a lonely, dead tree. Day and night, perched in the dried-out branches, are half a dozen vultures, just waiting for something to happen. You see, Hoving, art collecting is primarily a waiting game. Most of the time, you have to let the play come to you. Face it, a lot of curators are really nothing but creatures of carrion, picking off the leavings of creative artists...
...plain to see that at the center of the tiny cylindrical stage hurtling through the sky over the Atlantic was none other than the rascal of the age, Richard Milhous Nixon. The other two Presidents watched him. Jimmy Carter could not contain his curiosity. Former Press Secretary Jody Powell noticed that Carter stayed with Nixon. They talked about China and some of the personalities in Washington ("How wicked that must have been!" chortled one witness...
Selection committee officials made plain that the Nobel deliberations took no notice of recent attacks on Reaganomics by Tobin, a longtime opponent of the monetarist school of Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976. Rather, they said, the $181,818 prize was awarded for Tobin's career-long academic contributions to economic science. Chief among these is Tobin's belief that money (cash and bank deposits) should not be sharply distinguished by economists from other financial and physical assets. Instead, Tobin views money as only one part of "a continuous spectrum of assets" that...