Word: bails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sullivan, who is being held without bail, will go on trial January...
...punch what it lacked in punctuality. One reason is an economic woe that California's taxpayers brought upon themselves. As low growth and high unemployment ate into projected tax revenues, Proposition 13, a statewide measure passed in 1978 that limits local property taxes, forced the state government to bail out towns, counties and school districts suddenly strapped for cash. The state is also doling out welfare checks to 2,233,507 Californians this year. The result: replacement of the state's once hefty surplus with a budget deficit estimated at between $1 billion and $1.8 billion for fiscal...
...calling the unemployment cutback a tax, then, the President is merely linguistically shrouding what it really is--a new budget cut to help bail the Administration out of its budget deficit problem. While reassessing costly benefit programs is in itself entirely reasonable, the White House's backdoor style an describing and disclosing the concept warrant disdain...
...Basin plan the White House unveiled last spring. That program had a handful of promising long-range features designed to shore up Latin American economies. For example, most basin exports to the U.S. were to be duty-free, technology transfers were to increase and Washington was going to help bail out financially strapped countries like Honduras and Costa Rica with additional non-military aid. But most of these measures have bogged down in Congress, where senators and representatives give what gifts they can to constituents, not foreigners. The White House itself, in setting up new tariffs on subsidized goods...
...requires exactly that to cover her ugliness. Young women, of course, retaliate. At breakfast in Bates Hall at Wellesley, they wonder, "Why bother with a guy if he doesn't make your teeth fall out?" Time to book means time to leave, which can also be time to bail. None of this is exactly brilliant. Slang is sometimes merely a conspiracy of airheads...