Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush is putting real money behind his compassionate proposals--a total of $59 billion worth of new spending over five years offered in the past three weeks alone. How will he pay for it? Bush has already pledged to sharply increase spending on defense while also offering a tax cut of $483 billion. He insists the projected surpluses will cover all these political IOUs. But actually installing the Bush program of tax cuts and caring will require the kind of fiscal discipline Washington has never displayed. If Bush does keep within budget boundaries, claim Democrats, he will be certain...
...lives, may be several thousand dollars, still far more than the hard-pressed can afford. Bush advisers serve up some happy x factors to fill in the promise gap. Insurance companies, they say, will offer cheaper plans to accommodate this new pool of purchasers, and the Bush tax cut will allow families more money to spend on health care if they choose. Even a G.O.P. health-care expert who supports the Bush plan admits, "That's wishful thinking...
...principal at Chicago's Von Steuben High School, used the program to examine a student who was constantly picked on by peers for being effeminate. He had made disturbing comments in the past--for example, he vowed he would hurt classmates--yet his offense this time was less clear-cut. He refused to hand in a test after his teacher called time. A run of his particulars through the Mosaic program indicated there was no immediate cause for concern...
Though they seemed to be a match made in heaven, their wedding was a prelude to two years of hell. Irving's younger son cut the honeymoon short by running away from his mother's home and moving in with them; Irving's father died after a long illness; Irving was repeatedly hospitalized for mysterious blackouts. The couple lost one pregnancy to miscarriage; a second pregnancy ended in stillbirth the same week Phyllis' mother died of esophageal cancer; Phyllis was forced to commit her father to a mental hospital...
Such ambivalence is painfully familiar to Amy Ladd, former director of a sick-child facility in Terre Haute, Ind., that closed because its sponsoring hospital needed to cut costs. "Everybody screams for sick-child care, but they absolutely won't touch it unless they have to--and then only if Grandma can't do it and Mommy and Daddy can't change their schedules and the baby-sitter is not available. Parents just prefer to stay home...