Word: slice
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...must have been in some old movie, but you really can't be sure, because all you can tell is that the image is there- you don't know how it got there, maybe the idea was in the third sissel seed from the left on the top slice of that crabmeat on dark that you ate last night before you took your Hist 153 exam this morning, maybe Jesus Christ himself/herself visited you last night whilst you were unaware, but anyway it's there)? Well, cast a glance over the festive scene: rows of bandsmen on little perches behind...
Romney's Slice. During the afternoon of Jan. 10, Burns solicited the help of George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As they talked, Burns urged Romney to help lead a new effort to pare federal spending. The following Monday, Romney met with John Ehrlichman, Nixon's assistant for domestic affairs. Romney laid out a scheme for further across-the-board cuts in the budget, saying that his department would take a reduction as high as 5% if other Cabinet-level agencies did. Knowing that the President had his own misgivings about the budget, Ehrlichman took Romney...
...economic decision-makers are convinced that inflation will continue. Having put our hand to the plow to curb inflation, we must convince the economic decision-makers that we are not going to turn away. A little difference can make a big difference." More specifically, Romney proposed a 21% slice in all departmental budgets, which would reduce the total to $198.5 billion. He suggested a further economy of $1.2 billion to be achieved by freezing all federal pay raises. As an example, he said, the President and all his senior political appointees should take an immediate 25% salary...
...anyway. Hawkins liked to throw all-night parties in his apartment above Toronto's Le Coq d'Or club. "Ahh, boy," recalls Manuel, "lots of bring-out-the-wine-and-turn-the-music-up, lots of people in one room just sweating." That one room usually drew a large slice of the unsalubrious downtown playboy set. "The more parties you had," says Manuel, "the more people would come to the nightclub, 'cause they were hoping to get invited to a party later...