Word: lopsidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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2) Failed to pass balanced budgets for the past two years; they added many items to the Superintendent's recommended budget (based on the bottom line figure from the City Manager), but neglected to approve offsetting the reductions by cuts in other areas. Thus bloated, the budget was lopsided by...
Statements such as Lichtenstein's could become dangerously self-fulfilling. Sure enough, the evening that Reagan's expression of disdain for an American-based United Nations appeared in the media the Senate voted by a lopsided margin of 66 to 23 to cut by half the U.S. contribution to the...
It doesn't seem likely, though. The oddsmakers see the Crimson as almost two touchdowns better than Cornell today. Others, like the guy with the old-t-shirt, may have more lopsided scores in mind--41-14, perhaps.
Crimson Coach Bob Scalise had difficulty describing just how lopsided the game was "We played well," he said. "We attacked their weaknesses and outmanned them all over the field."
But this lopsided power is a decidedly two-edged sword in terms of American regional policy. On the one hand, the U.S. can utilize enormous force mere miles from the Central American coast. A single large aircraft carrier (of which there were sometimes three, and never less than one, in...