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...spreadsheet. Start with a government budget of 100, no debt and an annual deficit of zero. Call interest rates 4%. And say that in year one we get a 10%, across-the-board tax cut. Let's assume further that there is a starve-the-beast effect of 90%. This means that 90˘ of any dollar in tax cuts is covered by spending cuts that emerge spontaneously from the national subconscious. Assume finally that all the other things that affect government revenue and spending don't exist. What happens...
...just when you're ready to declare the mainstream dead, it swims up and bites you on the tush. The year's top-grossing movie was also an example of just what it takes--in a culture broken down by tribes and ages and demographics--to make an across-the-board hit. People flocked to Nemo because it was a good movie, of course. It was moving, it was beautifully animated. And who doesn't like a good ink-spurting joke? But more important, it was about easy-to-agree-with universals: loving your family, learning to live with risks...
...year. Students from low-income families will pay less than those from more affluent ones. UNEF, the French National Students' Union, claims the increase at IEP is a sign of privatization. At present there are no plans to introduce across-the-board tuition fees, but students are troubled by proposals to harmonize diplomas to European standards and give individual universities more freedom to allocate budgets and set course offerings. So they've done what French students always do: filled the streets of Paris to protest...
...defense played great the whole game and our offense did what it had to do against a very good defense,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “It was a solid across-the-board effort...
Identifying sexual assault as a human issue rather than a feminist one has been the key to garnering across-the-board support. The word “feminist” does not appear on any TBTN literature...