Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite all the careful orchestration, the partial list of potential cuts that emerged by week's end was not impressive. The White House ordered its budgeteers to try for only a $5 billion whack out of the entitlement programs-a timid move, since these programs swallow 77% of the entire budget and are rising at a dizzying pace. One option that Administration officials say they are considering is to slow the rise in Social Security benefits by modifying the formula that ties those benefits to the Consumer Price Index. That brought an outburst that typified the inflation fighters...
...Chronicler David Halberstam: "The So viets to learning the big Viet Nam lesson, that it's easier to go into those countries than it is to get out. They will find out, just as the U.S. did, how amazingly easy it is for a little country to swallow a military machine." Says a Pentagon officer with undisguised delight: "I think it's great. It tickles me to death...
...Chronicler David Halberstam: "The Soviets are learning the big Viet Nam lesson, that it's easier to go into those countries than it is to get out. They will find out, just as the U.S. did, how amazingly easy it is for a little country to swallow a military machine." Says a Pentagon officer with undisguised delight: "I think it's great. It tickles me to death...
Harvard found Saturday's loss a particularly bitter pill to swallow because it marked the third time this season Harvard had fallen to its archrivals. The Bulldogs play a characteristically rough breed of hockey, and "they just don't make it really fun," Reed said, adding "Yale is a team we just hate...
Beanpot '79, my last as an undergraduate, was a difficult chauvanistic pill to swallow. Harvard, on its way to an 8-17-1 season, lost both games and finished last in the tourney for the first time in 12 seasons. Indeed there was nothing appropriate...