Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass the law. Far from challenging them, Synar gave these interests just what they wanted. America needs Gramm-Rudman because it allows Congressmen to pass the buck while saving the country big bucks. The law mandates a reduction in next year's deficit to $144 billion, shrinking to zero by 1991. Cuts like this will never happen without Gramm-Rudman. Reagan will continue to push for more defense and less social spending while Congress does the opposite. We end up with a lot more of both. Gramm-Rudman is crucial because it forces compromise. The mandatory cuts...
...experiments with a 102-ft.-high solar sail. She also provided one of the most memorable images in space- program history when television cameras aboard Discovery captured her--in polo shirt and shorts--concentrating on her tasks while her long, curly dark brown locks wafted above her head in zero gravity...
...Brown to 29 percent first-half field goalshooting (the Bruins averaged 45 percent comingin). That defense also held second team All-Ivyguard Kerry Kelley to zero points in 34minutes of playing time...
...must submit next week, the restrictions become automatic. Discretion, choice, judgment--all are subordinated to the rule imposed by Gramm-Rudman that the deficit must be reduced in $36 billion increments each year until 1991, when the lion will lie down with the lamb and the deficit will total zero. The new law even dictates that half of the current cuts are to come from military spending (to be trimmed 4.9%) and half from nonmilitary outlays (4.3%). But not from us, the oysters began protesting...
...filming dragged on, the fabled Russian winter set in. To protect against temperatures that plunged at times to 18 below zero, the crew had to wrap equipment in blankets; once indoors, lights frequently shattered because of the temperature change. After shivering on frigid sets, the cast finally obtained two 54-seat buses, where they changed costumes by retreating behind cloths strung up like curtains. Then last February, a month before he was scheduled to leave to direct a production at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Schell was laid low by a fever for nearly four weeks. Torn between his Berlin commitment...