Word: shave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old. O'Keefe looks the part of the muscular Tarzan--maybe a bit too well. This man has not grown up on roots and berries: more likely he popped protein pills and grunted under a Nautilus. And it still remains unclear how be got that Trac II-close shave way out in the jungle...
...damage done by love letters is peanuts compared with what letters have wrought in the spheres of politics, especially when love and politics collide. Warren G. Harding had a close shave in his quest for the presidency thanks to a love affair with Mrs. Carrie Phillips-or "Carrie Darling Sweetheart Adorable," as Harding once addressed her. Luckily for Harding, his fellow Republicans were able to buy off Mrs. Phillips and send her on a vacation that extended through the campaign. Yet even the passionate Harding must have had an inkling of danger when he wrote the adorable Carrie: "Destroy these...
...sweeten the medicine of the benefit cuts, Schweiker pointed out that the savings might eventually snip the payroll tax rate levied on employers and employees alike from a projected 7.15% in 1986 to 7.05%. A worker in his 20s might thus shave about $33,600 off his contribution to the Social Security system by the time he retires...
...House, increasingly alarmed about the disarray in financial markets, tried to restore confidence among moneymen. President Reagan abruptly abandoned his pledge to spare Social Security retirement payments from the budget ax; he proposed reductions in old-age and other benefits that will trim Social Security payouts by 10% and shave $46 billion in the next five years. Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget, promised that more spending cuts and deferrals were on the way and hinted that the Administration might scale back slightly its request for outsized increases in military spending. Said he: "Nothing...
...that he was there, however amiably, to do them in politically. His biggest ovation in a 20-minute speech that was interrupted 13 times by applause came as he chided Congress for its past practice of taking only timid steps toward change. "The old and comfortable way is to shave a little here and add a little there," he said. "Well, that's not acceptable any more. I think this great and historic Congress knows that way is no longer acceptable." Republicans led the shouts of approval, then rose to applaud longer...