Word: rosier
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...discussion. The group-consisting of top White House aides led by Baker, Republican Senate chairmen led by New Mexico's Pete Domenici, and House Democratic chairmen led by Oklahoma's Jim Jones-agreed to use the economic assumptions of the Congressional Budget Office rather than the rosier Administration numbers. According to the CBO, the deficit for fiscal 1983, which begins Oct. 1, could reach $180 billion if Congress does not pass any of the spending cuts proposed by Reagan. The Administration's formal budget proposal, based on the dubious assumption that Congress will accept the radical changes...
...garrulity was not his blunder. Mr. Stockman's Administration-shaking mistake was not that he talked, but how he talked. He used a metaphor. Moreover, it was "a rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor," as he put it un-metaphorically in his news conference. Yet life would be no rosier for Mr. Stockman had his metaphor been lovely, wonderful and fortunate. For a politician there is no such thing as a fortunate metaphor...
Peter Alzado does not yet speak verse well enough to warrant being entrusted with both the Duke of Burgundy and the herald Montjoy. But Isabelle Rosier is an unalloyed delight as the 19-year-old princess Katharine, whom Henry woos with inadequate French even while wearing the correct French motto of the Order of the Garter embroidered on his leg riband...