Word: spilled
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During the congressional battle on raising taxes, Ronald Reagan emphasized that he was still committed to cutting federal spending. Any appropriation bill that threatened to spill over the budget limits previously agreed to by Congress, he said, would be vetoed. His first test came last week: a $14.2 billion supplemental spending bill that provides additional money for fiscal 1982 programs. That amount was both too much and too little to satisfy Reagan, who felt that it shortchanged defense in favor of added domestic outlays. "So even though it means delay in getting legislation," the President announced in a Saturday radio...
...Similar to Harvard and unlike schools such as B.U., B.U., and Wellesley, MIT has no keg rules no separations by age and no regularly used discipline policy for violators. (B.C. has an elaborate system in which resident advisors are responsible for "writing up" or reporting parties which for example spill into the halls or attract more than 25 students without being registered in advance.) MIT's policy seems more consistent and acceptable because it differs from Harvard's in two ways. First parties are planned and approved by a central dean's office instead of separately by 13 different House...
Watson's talents also spill over into the classroom. Salutatorian of his class, with a 4.4 GPA. Watson says he chose Harvard over the heavily recruiting swimming powers for the greater academic opportunities it provides...
...defense, Begin lashed out at the "hypocrisy" of the U.N. Security Council, which he said was so ready to condemn Israel but ignored the recent fierce crackdown on dissidents in Syria. "We don't want to spill the blood of any Arab," Begin insisted. "We want to live in peace and mutual honor with the Arabs of the land of Israel...
That irony is not entirely consoling to the West. For one thing, even when Communists are fighting among themselves, their conflicts threaten to spread. The ongoing civil war in Cambodia, between the China-backed forces of Pol Pot and the Vietnamese puppet regime of President Heng Samrin could spill over into Thailand. A new outbreak of war between Viet Nam and China could embroil all of Southeast Asia...