Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan's remark about abolishing corporate income taxes, though retracted, reveals his shallow knowledge of economics as well as his personal bias toward the rich. With the nation suffering severe unemployment, he questions the justification for taxing corporations instead of proposing a constructive jobs program. Many companies already have an excessive concentration of wealth. Without corporate income taxes, the situation would become worse...
...almost every doctor who was in Korea," Metcalfe claims. "At least 60% of the plots dealing with medical or military incidents were taken from real life." Says Reynolds: "These guys gave us details we never would have thought of. They kept us honest." Gelbart recalls one doctor's remark: "He said, 'In the winter it is so cold in the O.R. that when the surgeon cuts into a patient, steam rises from the body, and the surgeon will warm his hands over the open wound.' In the last show I wrote and directed, 'The Interview...
...staffer noted a friendly remark from a male student: "I hope you don't get too many calls tonight...
...tension to the situation when he declared last week in a newspaper interview that the Soviet Union and Israel should enter into negotiations. "Come, let us meet," Sharon was quoted by the newspaper Ma'ariv as saying to the Soviets. "[We] have something to talk about." The remark was nonsense, since the Soviet Union and Israel have very little to talk about at the moment. But as Sharon no doubt intended, it annoyed the U.S. As usual, no one knew for sure whether the Defense Minister was speaking for Prime Minister Menachem Begin or merely for himself...
Reagan prefaced the remark by saying that he would probably regret the statement. Yesterday, he conceded that the proposal was a mistake. "I said that I would kick myself for saying...