Word: whack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this drumming and dribbling coming out of Dallas now? A week ago, the National Basketball Association staged its All-Star festivities at Reunion Arena, where come March the National Collegiate Athletic Association will house its Final Four tournament. To complete the mood of a basketball world slightly out of whack, the N.B.A.'s annual slam-dunk preliminary was won by an undersize Texan, 5-ft. 7-in. Atlanta guard Spud Webb. Meanwhile, the long-range shooting medal went to a 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. forward, Boston's Larry Bird. The game that followed was overpopulated with seven-footers...
Experts in neighboring states issued similar warnings. In Oklahoma, officials said sliding prices could cut 10% from the state's already depressed oil production and could whack $50 million more out of a government budget that is now running a $197 million deficit. Oilmen fear that the declines could shut most of Oklahoma's 50,000 stripper wells, small units that individually produce no more than 10 bbl. per day but together account for the bulk of the state's petroleum output...
...zero next year." After counting increases in interest on the national debt, expenditures during fiscal 1986, which starts next Oct. 1, would rise only 1.5%, to $973.7 billion (including some off-budget outlays). That would be the smallest hike in 21 years. To achieve that goal, Reagan proposes to whack $42 billion out of what would be spent for nonmilitary purposes under existing law. He would freeze, curtail or even eliminate programs that benefit farmers, veterans, students, the sick, small businessmen, exporters and just about everybody else except Social Security recipients...
...pursued in the first term. It is easier to persuade Congress to cut taxes, as he did in 1981, than it is to reform the tax system, as he will try to do this year or next. It is easier to cut back programs for the poor than to whack entitlements for the middle class, which by and large escaped the budget ax last term. It is easier to buy more arms and denounce the Soviets as an "evil empire" than it is to work out meaningful arms- control agreements...
...Reagan's original budget proposals. This anomaly seems inevitable once again. To most members, the Pentagon cuts-or rather the scaled-down spending increases-seem puny in comparison with the deep and genuine reductions in civilian spending that the White House will ask. Current plans are to whack outlays a total of $169 billion below earlier projections over the next three years-$34 billion in fiscal 1986 alone. That would involve freezes on such programs as food stamps and welfare, reductions in popular programs like Medicaid and veterans' health benefits and complete elimination of general revenue-sharing grants...