Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investments, but it would probably reduce Government revenues initially, according to the Treasury Department. More broadly, Bush has not answered the most basic questions about his own economic philosophy. Until he became an acolyte of "voodoo economics," as he called Ronald Reagan's program in 1980, he was a standard deficits-do-matter conservative. What...
...President began speaking, advisers who had coached him were concerned that he would take back that pledge almost immediately after making it. Their fear was that once Reagan got past his prepared statement and started answering reporters' questions, he would go on automatic pilot and repeat all his standard denunciations of taxes. In fact, Reagan once or twice started to do exactly that but caught himself before going too far. Said an adviser the next day: "He almost blew it. He came very close...
...truth, even with the most brilliant policy, the passage to a sounder prosperity is likely to be tricky, dangerous and painful. Lowering the trade deficit will take years, and will probably require a cut in American consumption -- meaning, in other words, at least a temporary reduction in the standard of living. Many economists think the dollar will have to fall further too, reluctant as both U.S. and foreign moneymen are to see that happen. The reluctance is understandable. Unless a decline is carefully managed, it will raise two dangers: a renewal of inflation and a panic flight of foreign capital...
Richard Gephardt displayed his mastery of the intricacies of the market crash in almost textbook fashion: he lectured a sleepy high school class in Sioux City, Iowa, on the global economy, complete with chalk diagrams. Gore jettisoned his standard text and went after the President with lines like "What crashed on Monday was not only the stock market but Reaganomics as well." Still, Bruce Babbitt remains the only Democrat to confront the deficit boldly, especially with his underdog challenge to middle-class entitlement programs...
...argues in a note that endorses using their with a singular antecedent like everyone, something that was "nonstandard" in RHD-I. Hopefully seems a hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...