Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political games, the policy outcome is predictable. Since both parties have vigorously announced their intentions to protect Social Security payments from cuts, the only alternative is to increase revenues. The tax we all pay on our income will go up, of course; the only question is how fasts. One suggestion has been to hasten the 15 percent increase currently scheduled between 1985 and 1990. Another is to eliminate the exception from Social Security that some groups enjoy. Neither Democrats nor Republicans dare to suggest a more surgical solution--phasing out Social Security and replacing it with a welfare program that...
...leader who had been a virtual invalid for several years by a man with proven abilities as a decision maker offered hope that Moscow could finally begin to deal with issues that had long been neglected. Said a top British official: "The vibes we are getting from Moscow suggest a strong emphasis on continuity in domestic and foreign policy, but with the odds on longer-term initiatives in the economy and foreign affairs...
...England . . ." By chance, while in Paris early in the 19th century, the American Actor-Author John Howard Payne experienced some of the yearnings for home that found their way into his classic Home, Sweet Home. Together, Payne's song and Browning's poetry suggest that the part of home that is not merely a place exists, so to speak, in the I of the beholder. It is not quite true that you can't go home again. The deeper truth is that you never leave the part of home that becomes the movable feast of the imagination...
...banal red light plays over them; in the middle is a table, perhaps a sacrificial altar, and the whole cave is strewn with what seem to be mummified joints of meat. These are not identifiably human; if anything, they resemble small legs of lamb. But they suggest the dread cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Odyssey, strewn with fragments of unspeakable meals. The title is The Destruction of the Father...
...given his age, he may not have a great deal of time to bring about an Andropov era. All but one of the Politburo members who supported him for the leadership are in their 70s.* Andropov has suffered at least one heart attack. The actuarial tables suggest that he will be a transitional figure who will prepare the ground for a new generation of leaders. But Andropov has confounded Soviet watchers before, and this enigmatic figure may do so again as he takes up the portentous burden of ruling the Soviet Union...