Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have to continue to support them through humanitarian assistance. It also seems to me that we should not just march in and disband the contras. We need to at least leave open the prospect they could be re-established as a fighting force if Ortega continues to thumb his nose at his neighbors...
...West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain of a man getting a mesquite thorn removed from his thumb -- this may be the most vividly rendered old West in TV history...
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Still, supporters of a gas-tax increase say it has emerged as the best option for cutting the deficit. Each 1 cents per gal. would bring in $1 billion in annual revenue, according to a widely used rule of thumb. Rostenkowski last month suggested a 15 cents-per-gal. increase but would probably settle for less. To ease the burden on low-income motorists, Rostenkowski would provide them with income tax credits. Says Rostenkowski: "I don't think it's as regressive as people make it out to be." Advocates of the tax also point out that by throttling back...
...reincarnations of J.F.K. have had traces of the farcical. In 1984 Gary Hart, during the primaries, slipped into a bizarre physical impersonation that had him descending the stairs of airplanes with just the gingerly J.F.K. inclination of bad back and his right hand tucked into his jacket pocket, the thumb protruding in the way that Kennedy's always did. The American voter began to think of Madame Tussaud's, or of Elvis impersonators...