Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reacting quickly and massively," said Richard Schweiker, the former Senator and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary who now runs the American Council of Life Insurance. The life and health insurers have bought $ 1 million worth of TV ads to stir opposition to taxing fringe benefits (one ad shows a flock of birds circling around and pecking away at a loaf of bread). The Massachusetts Legislative Council for Older Americans is preparing a nationwide call for mass meetings, parades and a march on Washington to resist Medicare cuts. Vows a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "If they...
Some White House aides muse that an across-the-board freeze in domestic spending would save more money and stir less passionate opposition than cuts in specific programs. But that approach would present problems too: Congress might demand that military outlays be included, while Reagan would insist that they be exempted...
...stir city people into accepting the new system and to forestall conservative party bosses from crippling it, Peking is pushing the Sichuan city of Chongqing, one of the largest metropolises in China, as a kind of municipal role model. Buying from whatever domestic or international markets they choose, Chongqing's leaders in the past year have doubled business activity. If such reforms can succeed in Chongqing, the government seems to be saying, they can work anywhere in China...
...lower tax bracket. Home mortgage deductions amount to $25 billion annually, state and local taxes $22 billion, charitable contributions $13 billion. Many of these tax benefits are so widely accepted that a true flat tax seems impossible to enact. Even modifying any of the existing provisions is certain to stir resistance from those who would be hurt. For the individual taxpayer, notes retiring New York Congressman Barber Conable, "if the bottom line is that his taxes went up, that is not reform. That is fraud...
Reagan in this campaign knew where his applause lines would come. He could reach the people and stir them. Mondale tried-but failed until too late...