Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush despairs. "If it weren't for this deficit looming over everything else," he said, "I'd feel like a spring colt." The emphasis carried into the Inaugural. "A thousand points of light," Bush's call for increased volunteerism, can be interpreted as a deficit-constrained alternative to federally funded programs. Soothing symbols may be all that the less fortunate get from the Bush Administration because, as the President said, "we have a deficit to bring down . . . We have more will than wallet...
...most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several thousand federal defendants who must now be resentenced. The new system means stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes, 87% of which currently end in probation...
...unleashed upon the crowd. SASC said the chill in University attitudes toward divestment inspired this protest strategy, though a small faction of SASC members declines to participate due to the fact that all of the snow is white. Barbara Bush nevertheless gives an impassioned Commencement address about "A Thousand Point Spread" in the next Harvard-Yale Game, due to her husband's refusal to set foot in "that liberal boutique...
...only a few thousand U.S. homes are automated, but the number could rise rapidly. Some 700 smart homes are the work of Unity Systems, the Redwood City, Calif., company that boosted the IQ of McCovey's house. Unity sells Home Managers that can be geared to any climate or life-style, whether it means melting the snow off the porches of Connecticut mansions or heating hot tubs in California villas. Gail and Drew Arvay of Cupertino, Calif., rely on a Unity system to run their household while they pursue dual careers. Both of their school-age children and all their...
...nose," declared NBC News commentator John Chancellor last November, decrying the foul atmosphere of the fall campaign. READ MY LICKS, headlined the Los Angeles Times in a story about the menu for an Inaugural reception this month. Christian Science Monitor reviewer John Beaufort could not resist pointing out the "thousand points of incandescent light" in the lavish Broadway musical Legs Diamond. Last week USA Today ran a story about the pre-Inaugural cleanup of Washington. The headline: A THOUSAND POINTS OF GLEAM...