Word: slice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrible name for a senator." In Idaho, one television commercial shows an empty missile silo. The announcer tells the viewer that our weakened military is a direct manifestation of the votes cast by Frank Church in the Senate. Indiana commercials, later called "baloney ads," picture slices of baloney with multimillion dollar price tags on them, equalling the dollar count on deficit spending approved by Birch Bayh. The narrator says, "One very big slice of baloney is Birch Bayh telling us he's fighting inflation...
...that have resulted in 16 per cent inflation and two million unemployed, the highest since World War II. In a change of tune since campaign day, he said the Thatcher government was cutting only $4 billion from the national budget--no more than the Callaghan Labor government proposed to slice off in its later days. Unemployment wasn't really as bad as it sounded, since there were many jobs floating around waiting to be filled. In fact, "the British trade unions are responsible for the present high level of unemployment...
Though Buckley is outspending Dodd by 2 to 1, he needs a sizable slice of the independent and Democratic blue-collar vote if he is going to win. But for the moment at least, that part of the electorate seems reasonably content with his liberal Democratic opponent, even in what is supposed to be a conservative year...
...Catholic office withdrew its support of the Hollywood rating code, the Review branded 15% of releases with a C. But Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy, rated X by the film industry itself, got the Catholics' A-4 (O.K. for adults "with reservations") because it was seen as a serious slice-of-life film, homosexuality and all. Another A-4 film, John Travolta's disco epic Saturday Night Fever, was deemed to contain positive moral values, despite dissolute doings in the back seat...
...operation that was inspired by the accident, a procedure called radial keratotomy (a cut or slice into the cornea), the surgeon makes 16 or so incisions into the cornea. The cuts, varying in length and depth, extend from the outer edge of the cornea toward the center like spokes of a wheel. The internal eye pressure will stretch the nicked regions, thus flattening the center of the cornea...