Word: spew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viking; $10.95) is an equally eerie place, populated with recognizable creatures of the jungle, but transfigured by Leonard Baskin's violent line and shadowy backgrounds. Some of the descriptions, by Baskin's wife and children, are worthy of Ogden Nash: "The pygmy marmoset's minuscule lips/ Spew shrieking taunts, fierce orations and quips." Others are freighted with anthropomorphisms and archness. But Paterfamilias Leonard makes no mistakes in his rendering of tigers, camels, bighorn sheep, aardvarks and other forms of animal life: the creatures seem to have an existence beyond the page. Parents should not be surprised...
...Congressional Budget Office computer. Its handlers are supposedly nonpartisan technicians, but Republicans suspect them of programming the computer to spew out spending and deficit forecasts pleasing to the Democrats who head House committees. "CBO is politicized to a hopeless extent," said a congressional Republican staff aide last week. The CBO computer played no role in the pre-Thanksgiving brawl, but will be heard from again...
...Secretary of State for Security Assistance James Buckley admits that the Administration's arms policy "will include a larger number of sales to developing countries, which desperately need more effective means of defending themselves." Complains Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan's policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere...
...Wayne County's circuit court in Detroit, which adopted the system in 1975, it works this way: every two weeks the courthouse computers spew forth a random sample of more than 1,000 names and addresses from a jury pool of 30,000 citizens. Occupational exemptions have been abolished, though brief deferrals are usually granted by telephone. The rate of excuses has been cut from 33% to .09%. Thereafter, an average of 100 prospective jurors are summoned each day, but only about 75 are asked to come to court. The others telephone to hear a prerecorded message that tells...
...have a policy on arms limitations. He's clearly groping for a Mideast policy. He has no human rights policy, and may never have one now. His policy on El Salvador-first he blew it up, then he blew it down. His policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere. This Administration desperately needs a sense of direction...