Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan had his role rehearsed to perfection: a serious President-elect determined to get his Administration off to a fast start, yet relaxed and good humored with everyone. Worries about inflation, unemployment, the Persian Gulf war, the Soviets: all the nation's manifold and intractable problems seemed to be pushed aside. They will surely arise to haunt Reagan later, but the week was devoted to symbolic ritual-briefings by the CIA, a courtesy call on the Justices of the Supreme Court, a visit with Jimmy Carter at the White House-rather than substantive policymaking. The ceremony had a serious...
...Encouraging personal saving and investment by permanently excluding from taxation the first $200 that individuals earn from interest and dividends and $400 for couples filing joint returns. Congress voted for this tax saving to start in 1981, but for two years only. Reagan's advisers want to make the exclusion permanent...
...estimated to be $633 billion for fiscal 1981, Reagan advisers considered cutting 2%, or about $13 billion. Now the budget is estimated to stand at $653 billion, and a 2% reduction would not be nearly enough to prevent further inflation, especially if Reagan adds to defense spending. As a start - and it would be only a modest one - his advisers want to take a substantial slice out of the $8.9 billion Government travel budget and the $10 billion food-stamp program...
...that the captives' families have endured for more than a year: the close scrutiny and, in many cases, constant companionship of the press. In Globe, Ariz., Balch Springs, Texas, and dozens of other towns across the country, each new development in the hostage dilemma means that the telephones start ringing again late at night and reporters camp out in front yards waiting for "reaction...
...darts at it and make insulting remarks about her. Then when she called, they'd be all sweetness and light." The columnist, a breathless, electronic update of Louella Parsons, Hollywood's gossip queen of the '40s, left the show last September for Today, where she will start in January. Rushnell, who took over hi May 1978, brags that he cleared out nearly a third of the show's employees, the malcontents, as he calls them. "Now," he says, sounding like ABC'S commissar in charge, "the staff is 100% committed to support David Hartman...