Word: festooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill. The President instead decided to propose at first a "simple and clean" depreciation and income-tax bill that Congress just might be persuaded to pass swiftly. He will present other tax changes later. By doing so, Reagan is running a conscious risk that Congress will be tempted to festoon the first bill with all kinds of amendments embodying legislators' pet tax ideas...