Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform or any kind of tax bill is unlikely to succeed unless the President puts all the force of his personality and office behind it." Democrats also insisted that if Reagan expects to get much in the way of either tax reform or spending cuts, he will have to swallow a revenue increase through tax increases. Said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee: "This revenue-neutral business is pure fantasy...
...they say, but there just doesn't seem to be enough money. Coming from an institution that, in the last fiscal year to be assessed, turned a tidy $35 million surplus and spent $4 million alone on a union-busting law firm, this is rather hard to swallow. Moreover, Yale has certainly felt the strike's effects: admissions applications and alumni donations are both down. So why doesn't Yale settle, or at least make a legitimate compromise offer...
...restless country, unrestrained by the discipline of a sitting President. But in 1984 so many new surges were pressing up from underneath that the orthodox political issues were to blur in the interminable Democratic primaries. Mondale, a man of conscience but also a master political mechanic, had tried to swallow them all, to bring a coherence to the multitude...
Short of lobbying Congress for more stringent regulations, consumers can to little to reduce the hazards of the cosmetics industry. It is essential, however, that they exercise caution in buying and using cosmetics. A few basic rules should be to avoid cosmetics containing carcinogens, to avoid ingesting cosmetics (women swallow half the lipstick they wear) and to reduce the chances of infection by avoiding sharing cosmetics. Until the industry itself can be restricted, the consumer must take "caveat emptor" more seriously than ever...
...have another season--that was a very tough way to go out." Ford said. "It's really hard to swallow, especially a loss like that...