Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Clinton has been able to imbue higher taxes with some sort of moral worth, especially when the taxes are sold as a way to shrink the deficit. But Whatever fiascos and imbroglios the UC treats us to each years, deficits are about as little a problem for the UC as surpluses...
...delve too much further into the plot, for the sake of the few of you who haven't seen "Psycho." The twists of this story--in particular, one final twist--are so shocking and bewildering that Hitchcock felt the need to include a scene with a shrink to explain it all at the end. This is the one scene where the suspense, held so masterfully up until this point (and afterwards in Norman's final soliloquy), breaks. Some silly guy swings his finger around and ties it all up nicely for us. But keep in mind that most thrillers--even...
...studying fossils, Vrba found that the populations of large mammals in these environments underwent a huge change. Many forest antelopes were replaced by giant buffalo and other grazers. Vrba believes that early hominid evolution can be interpreted the same way. As grasslands continued to expand and tree cover to shrink, forest-dwelling chimpanzees yielded to bipedal creatures better adapted to living in the open. H. erectus, finally, was equipped to spread throughout the Old World...
...name Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, a surface-warfare officer, as CNO. Unlike all 24 CNOs who came before, Boorda, a high school dropout, never attended the Naval Academy. As the Navy personnel chief from 1988 to 1991, he drafted a plan that allowed the Navy, unlike other services, to shrink dramatically without firing personnel. But an Administration official said Saturday that Clinton might prefer to keep Boorda in his sensitive Naples post, where he has been planning the possible NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs. If so, the next CNO is likely to be Admiral Charles Larson, the Pentagon...
...would rise a modest 2.3% above those of 1994. Under Reagan and Bush, by contrast, federal spending jumped an average of 6.3% a year. Moreover, the budget would cut government spending to 21.6% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. And the deficit would shrink to just 2.1% of GDP by 1999, down from 4% when Clinton took office...