Word: wayed
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Sequestration is the last resort of national politicians unwilling to cut government spending in much the same way that patriotism is called the last refuge of scoundrels. The obscure word, which looks like a refugee from a crossword puzzle, means seizure, and that is what happened last week. President Bush directed all federal agencies to meet the budget-deficit- reduction targets specified by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law by imposing $16.1 billion in across-the-board spending cuts. Worthy domestic-spending programs such as subsidized housing were cut the same 5.3% as pork-barrel projects like the Agricultural Extension Service...
Around Labor Day, however, the consensus that Darman had put together began to fall apart. "Everything was going along swimmingly," explains an Administration official, "until the drug plan came out of nowhere, and then capital gains became partisan instead of the easy way out." The battle against drugs meant new spending, and Democrats began attacking a capital- gains cut as a Republican tax goody for the rich and famous...
...respected researcher who was one of the first to use cyclosporine may have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a new drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences...
...marked by such piercing incidents. A Washington Post reporter, he begins by following some 600 freshmen, ruddy and damp in their new gray wool uniforms. Loud harassment is the order of the day ("Pull that neck in, mister. You call that bracing?"). It has been this way since Thomas Jefferson founded the academy in 1802, and in the crowd of intimidated cadets the figures tend to blur -- until destiny selects them for service in Viet...
...That was General Viktor, the commander for this region. He was quite polite. He said it was time we wind things up. He doesn't want to be forced to act. I told him to give us a few days. By the way, General Viktor is the man who took my fingerprints 26 years ago. I said to him, "I remember you. I know you very well. You charged us." He said, "Yes, I remember...