Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members by the New York Times, 83% favored cutting back scheduled in creases in defense spending, 62% pro posed canceling next July's tax cut, 89% opposed trimming Social Security cost-of-living increases, and 58% opposed additional reductions in domestic social programs. Nor is there a solid guarantee that the Republican Senate would line up behind Reagan if he eschews compromise. Nineteen Republicans are up for re-election in 1984, compared with twelve this year. Says moderate Republican William Cohen of Maine, who is one of them: "The Senate is going to be more independent next year...
...free-spending variety of old. Of the 52 freshman Republicans who were swept into Congress by the Reagan victory in 1980, 14 were swept right back out. Moreover, many had been newcomers not just to Congress but to politics, and they were replaced mostly by Democrats who have acquired solid experience in state or local government...
...unbeatable. According to Harvard Co-Captain Dave Fasi, "Brown--you may be surprised to hear this--I don't think they have really remarkable players, like what you might find in California," where Brown is considered just another contender trying to overthrow NCAA champion Stanford. "They just have good, solid players who really know how to play together...
...quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine-flavored toothpaste, pineapple peelers, electronic potato parers, pear trees, frozen pheasants, silver stirrups, golden everything, robot chess partners, posters, potholders, the world's plumpest peanuts...
...City's fashionable Upper East Side (10021) or the ultra-upscale retirement community of Naples, Fla. (33940). The Census Bureau sells nationwide tabulations for as much as $250,000 each. Says Dallas' Horchow, whose mailing list has grown from 48,000 to 1.5 million names: "Without a solid list, a mail-order company just doesn't have a chance...