Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the restrictive parliamentary procedure planned by the speaker requires a tough two-thirds vote before the bill could be sent to the Senate. The 51 percent raise would remain in effect unless both chambers agreed to cut it back, and House opponents vowed to roll it back to zero whether Wright wins or loses...
...gored," says Grandy. "People are saying we can't freeze entitlements and we can't touch Medicare, and we certainly can't touch Social Security. That's probably true. But the bottom line is the lion's share of our government spending goes to those benefits, and unless they address them some way, it's going to be damn difficult to balance a budget on remaining expenditures, including defense...
...Irving, Bush's pledges to keep defense spending at the inflation rate and not to cut Social Security leaves only $28 billion in spending increases for all other programs in the 1992 budget. Moreover, Irving says, Medicare--left untouched--will cost an additional $65 billion in that year. Unless Medicare or other programs are drastically cut, she says, the budget will continue to operate...
...like to think of our road trip as a safari as it were, and I ain't coming home unless I get me some Tiger Pelt," sophomore George Polsky said. "Fishy's been lecturing us on the art of the kill and I've been taking notes. In a nutshell we're armed to kill...
...well as Fred and Ginger, Lucy and Ricky, Mom and apple pie. The American empire was no longer propelled by imperial visionaries but rather by doubting, probing, experimenting empiricists. Assessing the message of The Graduate, film critic Stanley Kauffmann wrote, "Life, today, in our world, is not worth living unless one can prove it day by day, by values that ring true day by day." The Graduate was the top-grossing film...