Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade of budget deadlock, unfettered spending and unprecedented borrowing. President Reagan, for his part, fought bitterly against tax increases and cuts in the defense budget when both seemed called for. The Democrats, for their part, were slow to compromise on social spending and, like the Republicans, cherished their pork-barrel projects. Corporate America, which had grown content with its domestic marketplace, aggravated the trade deficit by its lack of motivation to sell products abroad. Consumers added to the trouble by developing a ravenous taste for imported goods and credit-card spending. All told, the roaring '80s have been a time...
...overt symbolic actions silly. Jake opens a box of his father's ashes and blows. An American flag somehow finds itself draped like a blanket around Jake's shoulder's and later stuffed like a bridle into his mouth or tied like an old rag around Mike's rifle barrel. But these tend to be balanced by moments in which the play takes itself less seriously, as when Lorraine says of Beth and Jake, "A woman who lives with a man like that deserves to be killed," or when Baylor rhapsodizes, "Hunting is no hobby...
...reserves currently are filled to about two-thirds of the 750 million barrel capacity. If filled, the barrels would be able to supply the nation with oil for more than three years...
...leave my seat. I cannot reach any levers. Nor can I leave my chamber to visit the fish and the mice on board for experiments. What this biosatellite needs is some of your perestroika -- you know, restructuring. Space flight might then be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Sincerely yours, Yerosha
...cylinders -- and natural materials, but he seldom leaves them basic or pure. He pulls together polished granite with curved glass with concrete, and makes columns short and fat, as in his 1971 Sogo Bank building; in a 1974 country club in Oita and a library in Kitakyushu, he makes barrel vaults snake and turn like architecture squeezed from a toothpaste tube...