Word: 1980s
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Malodorous as all this may be, it is not likely to add up to a case. Even if Tucker had damaging stories to tell about Hillary's role in the project, the First Lady cannot be prosecuted today for what she did in the mid-1980s because the federal statute of limitations has run out. That leaves a perjury or obstruction case against her for losing records and telling falsehoods to the FDIC or grand jury, but Starr appears to have backed away from that idea. And though the prosecutors questioning Tucker focused on Hillary's Castle Grande work, according...
Another unspoken liability is the possibility that later on a tax will be levied on a Roth's earnings. It's hardly unthinkable, though Senator Roth maintains it'll never happen because of the "political hailstorm" that would ensue. But Social Security benefits weren't taxed before the 1980s. Real estate deductions were greatly curbed in 1986. In 20 years, predicts Robert Walsh, a tax professor at Marist College, if Social Security is bankrupt, "the politicians will see this huge pot of money called the Roth, and they won't be able to leave it alone." The Roth...
When Mikhail Gorbachev instituted his policy of glasnost in the late 1980s, the Communist Party tried to practice a policy of regulated criticism. The goal was to "de-Stalinize" the Soviet Union, to resume Khrushchev's liberalization in the late 1950s. But eventually, glasnost led to the image of Lenin, not least with the publication of Vassily Grossman's Forever Flowing, a novel that dared compare Lenin's cruelty to Hitler's. While he was in office, Gorbachev always called himself a "confirmed Leninist"; it was only years later when he too--the last General Secretary of the Communist Party...
...1980s, privatization was a new term in world government, and by the end of the decade more than 50 countries, on almost every continent, had set in motion privatization programs, floating loss-making public companies on the stock markets and in most cases transforming them into successful private-enterprise firms. Even left-oriented countries, which scorned the notion of privatization, began to reduce their public sector on the sly. Governments sent administrative and legal teams to Britain to study how it was done. It was perhaps Britain's biggest contribution to practical economics in the world since J.M. Keynes invented...
...Asia and still squeeze out a fairly good year. Some reasons for that strength: rising productivity, which is at last increasing workers' real wages without pushing up prices, and government policies that Sinai pronounces "eerily" wise. Most important, of course, is the swing from gargantuan budget deficits in the 1980s and early '90s to an expected small surplus this fiscal year, with more to come. Kaufman notes a continuing boom in business investments and a new surge in housing--both "very unusual" for an expansion going into its eighth year. One reason: builders of factories and houses can borrow more...