Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, Thatcherism is a bitter pill to swallow for liberals in the U.K., but at this point there is nothing else on the table. The currently obsolete Labor Party, which has flirted with socialism and communism, finally received the as from an English public fed up with outlandish proposals about quitting the Common Market, nationalizing many prime industries and scrapping the country's military defenses...
...thing is certain decisions are final, except in the cases of alleged discrimination. "Occasionally, people think they should've gotten a little more, but that's part of the complexities of the world. Unless you're really upset, you just sit there and swallow it," the $71,000-a-year O'Brien elaborates, adding with a laugh, "I mean, I think Derek should pay me twice as much, but what...
...Reagan's urging, passed funding for the convenient MX. But that gullibility should not prevent it from acting on the more nearly solutions Scowcroft had to offer. After essentially reducing the MX to sugar for its recommendations, the Commission introduced a final pill which shouldn't be hard to swallow at all. The pill is Midgetman, a small, mobile missile with a single warhead that could be produced in large numbers, if needed, at relatively low cost. Such a non-threatening, land-based ICBM follows naturally from the Commission's argument that the "window of vulnerability" was never open...
...high-tech heaven. A public policy theorist wants his plans implemented, but Reich does not leave enough room for natural compromise. While he might think that America needs "a new consensus" to address these problems, such a consensus has not emerged. Without it, the country is unlikely to swallow Reich's prescription whole...
...Walls fell, chimneys crumbled and roofs collapsed. "I was slammed against one wall and then the other," said Eva Rhodes, 75, who had just started to make dinner. Added Cleona McCormack: "The way the floor was rolling, I thought the earth was going to open up and swallow...