Word: tested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...test will be whether any discipline at all can survive the headlines about the extra $1,000,000,000,000 the government expects to find under the mattress. So much depends on the projections' being right, when the happiest news of the year has been how wrong they turned out to be. Five years ago, the deficit for 1999 was projected at $207 billion. Last February the budget office announced instead we would run a $79 billion surplus; just four months later, it was $99 billion...
...budget fight in the weeks to come will be a character test, more so than in the days when there wasn't enough money to do anything. Both sides have a long habit of spending money now that won't arrive until later, and promising that they'll cut something without saying exactly what. The fear is that Congress will get too drunk on prosperity to drive the budget home safely--and that's why conservatives aren't so keen about the party in the first place...
...Akers, who preceded Hamm to stardom, this Cup was a test of willpower. Dogged by chronic fatigue syndrome and damaged knees, she has pursued this Cup as relentlessly as she has tracked down opposing midfielders. With the Olympics coming up next summer, Akers has said she will listen to what her body is telling her about whether to play. That would be a first for someone whose body has been screaming at her for years...
...Even though I was one of the people who suggested they test for arsenic, and knew there could be arsenic, I am so very disappointed that they did indeed find arsenic," said...
...rhythm, and was handling my new friend, the tele-prompter joystick, with the skill of any of the characters in the movie American Pie. Further-more, to be fair, the host abhorred the prompter, and ended up rarely using it during the course of the broadcasts, choosing instead to test his ad-libbing skills against the unpredictability of the motley crew of "extreme" guests on the set, a bout that he admittedly won by unanimous decision...