Word: whack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even more striking, bond prices rose enough to send the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds down to 7.17%, the lowest since 1986 (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). Apparently bond traders, who usually do not trust Democrats, think that Clinton really will whack down the federal deficit while stimulating the economy. If they expected the deficit to rise, they would bid up interest rates, crippling the ability of consumers and businessmen to borrow...
...depends more heavily on imported oil for electricity and home heating than any other region, last week sent Bentsen a letter opposing an import fee. Complains William Whall, a blind Korean War veteran who lives in New Hampshire: "I just converted to oil heat, and now Clinton wants to whack me with an oil-import fee. I can't stand it. It seems like you get taxed if you do and taxed...
...prices are also totally out of whack. Two dollars for a slice. Five dollars for a sandwich. Tommy would have gone on an oat bran diet before he charged $6 for a hamburger...
...recite them through gritted teeth: forgetting to put in a cassette; failing to turn on the timer or (on some machines) switch off the VCR; accidentally leaving on the mute button; coming home to discover that a presidential press conference has put the whole evening's schedule out of whack...
...Perot plan. Whoever would have expected that a tract on deficit reduction could captivate people and rank as a best- selling book? In United We Stand, Perot tells how he would raise gasoline taxes 50 cents per gal., boost the top income-tax rate from 31% to 33% and whack 10% out of spending for programs ranging from medical research to highway construction. The goal of such tough actions: to slash the federal deficit and balance the budget in five years. "What Perot has done is to put some real beef on the table," says Robert Reischauer, director...