Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts exempt some of the programs for which spending is growing most rapidly. Here the critics-and they include a number of conservative Republicans -have a solid point. Reagan has indeed exempted many major "entitlement" programs, those to which people are automatically "entitled" if they fit certain criteria. These include Social Security pensions, numerous veterans' benefits and Medicare. Such programs are "indexed" to inflation: the faster the Consumer Price Index rises, the more benefits increase-even though the CPI is not a totally accurate measure of the cost of living. The CPI is, for instance, heavily weighted to reflect...
...seemed that if you were a longtime Reagan supporter you were persona non grata at the White House. It's hard to have Reaganism without Reaganites." But others, including some in the Administration, are concerned that things may be going too far. Says one West Wing aide: "Good, solid Republican types are getting screwed...
...temporarily-and perhaps dangerously -stored in huge steel-and-concrete tanks. No decision has yet been made on any of the various types of geological storage dumps under study. Carter explains that unlike the oil or gases kept in the ground under pressure at places like Mont Belvieu, solid nuclear wastes could not trickle through the salt. In fact, he and his colleagues already have some preliminary ideas about how the debris should be buried. Vertical shafts, he explains, would be sunk in solid salt to a depth of about 2,000 ft. Horizontal tunnels would fan out from...
...present, a remarkably consistent picture of black America, of America itself, springs to life. The mythology of that literature is a historical fact, the nation's worst-slavery. Besides the moral damage that slavery did the nation, it also created a cultural framework at once so distorted and solid that we live within it still...
...Cohasset native also has excellent range in the field. He concedes that he has a weakness batting against certain left-handers ("I would understand it if [new Sox manager Ralph Houk] sat me down against tough lefties," he said recently), but his solid six years batting against all comers show he is a major league hitter--plus. For Remy the answer is obvious. If he were Ralph Houk, he says. "I'd play me every...