Word: soak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chosen to use their limited power in the coalition to pull government policies further to the left. Thus, while Premier Pierre Mauroy last week presented the Cabinet with a tough 1984 budget calling for increased taxes on middle-and upper-income earners, the Communists have launched a more extreme, soak-the-rich campaign of their...
...fairness issue" The main Democratic ideological weapon to date, this issue appeals to voters upset with the President's propensity to soak the poor Reaganomics, the argument goes, has affected different economic strata differently and, therefore, unjustly. The problem with this line of attack is not that it is wrong--sadly, it is quite correct--but that it carries little promise of attracting the voters the Democrats need to win back the White House...
...daunting barrier to any vigorous rebound. For example, a further drop in interest rates is indispensable to a strong recovery. But the budget foresees the key 90-day rate on Treasury bills averaging 7.9% in 1984, about what it is now, because Government borrowing to cover the deficit will soak up too much money to permit any significant drop soon...
...Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Catholic. Trudeau has argued that Canada must stress profits, wage restraints, investment and productivity. Challenging those priorities, the commission condemns "the renewed emphasis on the 'survival of the fittest' as the supreme law of economics" and asks for controls on profits, soak-the-rich taxation, a bigger role for labor unions and government programs to create jobs...
Like thousands of their classmates, players on the Harvard men's basketball team will board a plane in search of warmer climes today, but the cagers' trip to Texas is more than just a chance for them to soak up some holiday...