Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance junior faculty members have of receiving tenure (he could have looked at the Yankees; how many World Series have they won without a farm system, just throwing money at free agents?). While it shouldn't be hard to imporve junior members' chances--you can't do worse than zero--he has proposed making their positions more attractive by decreasing their teaching load...
Thanks to the new stipulation that students must undergo urinalysis before receiving a diploma (a rule adapted from Major League Baseball), 27 seniors from Leverett House will get to spend another semester here in Cambridge, desperately hoping those THC levels come back down to zero. Harvard graduates, just like overweight, overpaid baseball players, must remember they are the heroes of Young America and set a shining example...
...factory owner who is pulling out says Hibbing has gone Communist, by which he means that real estate taxes are too high. As to the weather, Hibbing natives need only gauge the speed with which their nostrils freeze to calculate that the temperature is 19 degrees below zero. There is snow on the ground but nothing too serious. "Just walk where they've plowed," says Travel Agent Sue Klobuchar, "and it'll only be up to your ankles." It is good weather for ice fishing or Las Vegas; take your pick...
Gramm-Rudman sets up a series of targets for reducing the federal deficit to zero by 1991. If Congress and the President cannot meet those targets, automatic cuts in about half the budget go into effect. The Comptroller General is to draw up the list of exactly how much must be cut and clarify any ambiguities about just which agencies would be affected. Synar's suit raised two questions: Can Congress lawfully delegate its power of the purse at all? And can it confer that much authority on the Comptroller General...
...total of all discretionary domestic appropriations. Yet this time Congress cannot heedlessly dismiss the President's proposals. Looming in the background is the specter of the Gramm-Rudman law, passed last year, which threatens automatic cuts if the deficit is not reduced to $144 billion in 1987 and to zero by 1991. On Friday a three-judge federal panel declared the triggering mechanism of that law unconstitutional. But pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, its provisions remain in force, adding uncertainty to anxiety in the coming confrontation between Reagan and Capitol Hill...