Word: spendthrift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation during Reagan's eight-year administration, state spending doubled, to $9.3 billion, and state taxes per capita jumped to $768 from $426; both increases were at about the same rate as those during Democrat Pat Brown's eight-year administration, which Reagan had attacked as spendthrift. Still, Reagan held state employment to about 116,000, an increase of less than 10%, compared with the 75% increase of Brown's years. Moreover, Reagan substantially raised state aid to schools and other local services. Unquestionably, he left California's state government on a sounder fiscal footing than...
...City's financial crisis has made it into the national news. For months the city's agonies had been relegated to the business sections of papers elsewhere, and John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite had barely mentioned them. But an approaching presidential election and an administration determined to teach a spendthrift Congress a lesson have rescued New York from oblivion. Now people outside the state care if New York sinks: Ford is promoting its collapse...
Whoever wanted to send the Senators that message certainly could not be characterized as a spendthrift. The envelopes carrying the blast were franked with a privately printed stamp picturing a pair of hands held in prayer, the American flag and the inscriptions...
SIEUTH IS BOTH a suspenseful British thriller, and a clever satire that up-ends all time honored deadbody-in-the-rose-bed conventions. The impoverished Italian, desperate for money to support his spendthrift lover, doesn't ever steal anything. The aristocratic husband, bearing the cross of cuckoldry on his corpulent frame, shoots him squarely through the head but no one ever dies. When the crusty, provincial detective scrapes dried blood from the bannister, he really isn't looking for a murder victim. With the mystery at the brink of solution--and this is the biggest bluff of all--it appears...
...lady's own life has often been less than blithe. Her one marriage, to Sir Robert Peel-a reckless spendthrift descended from the Prime Minister who gave his nickname "Bobby" to the English policeman-ended unhappily. Her one child, the last Sir Robert, died when his ship was hit by Japanese bombs in 1942. She apparently never considered remarrying and spurned no less a fig ure than Clark Gable. " 'You lost your son, I lost my wife,' " she quotes Gable as saying. " 'Why don't we get married?' I didn...