Word: bring
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...opted for baseball, and last week the decision paid off handsomely. After languishing for eight years with the flaccid Padres, Winfield, 29, signed a contract with the New York Yankees that will reportedly bring him as much as $20 million over the next ten years. His agreement with the Yankees, by far the richest contract since baseball's free-agent era began in 1976, makes him the highest-paid American athlete. Houston Astro Pitcher Nolan Ryan's $1 million a year and fellow Yankee Outfielder Reggie...
...Tape measure in hand, Graber personally spent two days poring over the living quarters, including the Carters' bedroom. Carter people, who have been rather stung by all the press commentary on the "style" that the Reagans might restore to the capital; snickered gleefully that all the newcomers would bring was "Beverly Hills class." Few other First Families have plunged into redecoration right away. One of the first things the Kennedys intended to do was convert a bedroom to a private dining room, but they did not get around to it for months...
According to Pechman, proposals to cut such programs are likely to prove politically unpalatable to Congress, which will have to revise existing legislation to bring about reductions. For years Presidents have annually proposed budget cuts to Congress, but these are just as regularly rejected after effective counteraction by special-interest groups...
Said he: "I think it is easy to talk yourself into the view that almost everything is uncontrollable, but I do not believe that." Among the areas where Feldstein said spending cuts could bring about substantial savings at minimal political cost: $3 billion in federal subsidies to airports, $7 billion in revenue sharing to states, and $5.5 billion in excessively generous payments for disabled workers, who would not have qualified for federal support under standards that prevailed as recently...
...entire history of this Administration may be read in the evolution from "Jimmy" to "Carter," one name, in a sense, being the polar opposite of the other. The first law of nicknaming, then, is that the term must arise from the heart, from some irrepressible popular urge to bring a public figure closer to the family bosom. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was aided immeasurably in her campaign by being known as Maggie; "Ted" Heath and "Sunny Jim" Callaghan were similarly embraced. So was Rhodesia's Ian Smith, who was known as "Good Old Smitty" to his white supporters...