Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teenagers, a look often has to suffice for a life-style. Japan may be a wealthy nation, but its young people remain restricted. The demands of a high-pressure educational system allow little time for relaxation and leave few opportunities to make a drastic change in life-style: to spend a summer at the beach or hours learning hang gliding...
...Emma Samms (they dated a few years ago, says Hall, but are no longer involved) and Newhart's Mary Frann (too old for him, he insists) to singer-choreographer Paula Abdul ("just very good friends"). Hall refuses to identify the current "special woman" in his life and claims to spend much of his time after hours by himself. "My life is in front of people," he says, "so when I go home, I don't want to hear voices...
...Sandinistas. Even the U.S. is uncertain how strongly to back her. While Ortega is one of Bush's least favorite heads of state, lavishing U.S. resources on a lost cause could succeed only in making Ortega more difficult to deal with in a second term. Still, the U.S. will spend $9 million to support the election, giving some to U.N.O. and some -- by Nicaraguan law -- to the Sandinista government...
...where are the students? They are being forced to spend their Pell grants and scholarships on expensive private health insurance. If ever there were an issue for the 1990s, an issue that combines social consciousness with a healthy dose of self-interest, it is the issue of creating a national health care system...
...mortgage interest deduction also benefits from its low political visibility. It's easier to spend $30 billion through the tax code than to mail out one million checks for $30,000. It wasn't until 1974 that Congress and the President were even required to list the revenue loss of "tax expenditures" such as the mortgage interest deduction as costs on the budget...