Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incorrect, since attributing the deficit to any particular cause is necessarily a matter of political preference. This fiscal year, however, nondefense spending will rise an estimated $14.6 billion, or only 3%. Military costs will go up $33.6 billion, or 18%, while the Administration's tax cut will shave 1983 revenues by $35 billion...
That was my sophomore year. I was still young and crazy then," Cash says, " I always used to shave my head in high school-it gets pretty hot underneath that helmet-and so I thought that year I'd put an "H" up there...
...Business. When Congress adjourned in October it left ten of its 1983 appropriations bills dangling, and a Government funded only by continuing resolution. The lameduck session probably will be asked to vote on Reagan-backed proposals to replace the public housing subsidy program with a voucher system, and to shave $1 billion from Title I, the main federal program for schoolchildren from poor families. The cut would mean that 2.5 million of the 5.4 million children currently served by the program would no longer be eligible...
...Sibrian, who denied being at the Sheraton that night, was put in a lineup to be viewed by witnesses of the incident. However, before appearing, he was allowed to dye his red hair black, cut it and shave off his mustache. Although nobody recognized him in the lineup, he was later identified by the killers. López Sibrian was also ordered to undergo a lie-detector test, and failed...
...differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion that was unbroken amid the debris. "Everything seems to survive," he thought then, "except people." For his story, he strung those images together, a sportswriter taking the reader to places and situations in the sports world where no purchased ticket would ever permit him entry...