Word: porousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When California's Republican Governor George Deukmejian took office last January, the Golden State was staggering under a projected deficit of $1.5 billion. One month later it was broke. Unemployment hovered around 11.2%. Pledged to balance the budget without tax increases, Deukmejian prodded the legislature to close porous tax loopholes on leisure activities and streamline tax-collection laws. The state finished fiscal 1983 with a comparatively manageable deficit of $462 million. That done, he blue-penciled $1.1 billion from the legislature's fiscal 1984 budget proposals. Coupled with surging revenues from the state's rebounding aerospace...
...1960s, Borobudur's foundation was so badly weakened that the entire structure was in danger of collapse. Some of the balustrades were listing as much as 11° because the artificial hill on which the temple sits had settled. Algae, fungi and lichens were eating away at porous stone, obliterating the exquisite carvings...
BROWN 62, COLUMBIA 38--Lion quarterback John Witkowski passes for 400 yards and four touchdowns against the porous Bruno secondary. Meanwhile, Bruin quarterback Joe Potter does whatever he down well pleases against the Columbia defense, for which porous is an improvement...
...three of its five outings, the Tigers defensive unit has surrendered at least 35 points. On what can euphemistically be described as a porous defense. The leading tackler is strong safety Joe Warnement. Who by necessityblities frequently to alone for an inept pass rush...
Allard may not be able to guide the Crimson through five-play 80-yard drives as he did against the Minutemen, but the Army defense has proved somewhat porous in its three earlier outings UNC rushed for 421 yards against the Cadets, not a shocking statistic given the match-up, unless you consider that Tar Heel running back and Heisman candidate Kelvin Bryant didn't play a single down when Army visited Chapel Hill. Still, Crimson halfbacks Tim McGugan--today's starter--and Scott McCabe should be aware that the Cadets held Lafayette to 46 yards on the ground, when...