Word: whack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, beneath the "kinder, gentler" rhetoric that prevailed in the president's Thursday night address lies a budget whose priorities seem out of whack. While the Bush budget completely freezes spending on many existing economic programs, it allows for an increase in defense spending to keep pace with inflation...
Bush said the Massachusetts governor had presided over a criminal justice system "completely out of whack: a 'Twilight Zone' world where prisoners' right to privacy had more weight than the citizens' right to safety...
...Counter was not taking a whack at anybody--ifhe just said `no' he would be turning his back onthe opportunity to make a statement he thinksneeds to be made," Doyle said. "He is tremendouslydedicated to the students at Medgar Evers and hefeels that Medgar Evers College will never be ableto reach its potential until all efforts are madeto restore its four-year status...
...unable to absorb any more nutrients or contaminants, simply passes them along toward bays and open coastal areas. "When the system is working," says Maurice Lynch, a biological oceanographer at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, "it can take a lot of assault. But when it gets out of whack, it declines rapidly...
...ridiculous," he says, "to say that our country cannot afford 5.9%" of gross national product, approximately the current rate for national defense. Yet Congress is reflecting a judgment that gargantuan deficits ($147 billion this year) will eventually cripple the economy. They cannot be significantly reduced without a whack at planned military spending, which constitutes 27% of the entire budget...