Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't look like a complicated climate, but it is a complicated climate," he said. "On the one hand, we're continuing to whack away at the budget...At the same time, we're going to go out and raise a lot of money--we've already raised some-- and millions of dollars are going to come...
...where other people quailed before the mighty typesetter, I loved it. I figured out what all the weird leading keys on the side of the keyboard actually meant and could fix the buffer with a good whack to the side. Some of my happiest memories of high school are of working amidst the smell of developer fluid...
...likes the idea of government-mandated insurance coverage for prescription medications and for home-care visits by nurses or aides -- two major needs for many sick seniors. But the elderly and allies in the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare are aghast at Clinton's intention to whack $238 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid spending between 1996 and 2000, mostly by limiting payments to doctors and hospitals. They do not trust Administration promises to return much of the money to the old and poor through other portions of the plan...
...moment Bruce Reed knew for sure that the health-care system was out of whack came in December 1991 when three men in dark suits paid him a visit. Reed, a little-known analyst working in a dimly lit Washington campaign office for dark-horse candidate Bill Clinton, listened politely as the three veteran lobbyists from a major pharmaceutical company pleaded with him to delete price controls from the health-care proposal that Clinton was soon to unveil. "If you guys can afford to send three high-priced lobbyists to buttonhole somebody like me," Reed told his visitors, "then...
...openers, Clinton deserves considerable praise for having pushed so vigorously for an honest whack at the nation's deficit. The infamous 1990 budget agreement, to which the current plan is so often falsely compared, was dishonest in almost every key respect, primarily because its assumptions were bogus. With Bush's agreement, Congress blithely adopted a set of pie-chart-in- the-sky economic projections almost double the average predicted by private forecasters. When the revenues did not match expectations -- and health-care expenses soared -- the deficit exploded. Clinton, by contrast, has embraced decidedly conservative growth estimates (lower, in fact, than...