Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years: stay on message and stay on television. "If they conclude this plan and send it to me," Clinton said Wednesday from his sunny pulpit in the Rose Garden, "I will have to veto it. I will refuse to sign any plan that signs away our commitment to America's future, Social Security, Medicare, paying down the debt...
...that sounds familiar, it?s supposed to ? and Clinton won?t be easing up anytime soon. The plan: Keep the public eye on debt-reduction (cue Larry Summers) and off what the White House likes to call "America?s future" or "needed programs." (In other words, new spending.) He has the luxury of pushing delayed gratification (leavened with a small tax cut of his own) at a time when even overtaxed Americans are feeling wealthier than ever before, and the luck to be up against a GOP plan whose sheer size makes his spending programs look like the lesser...
Ivins is such a refreshing voice. It's good to be reminded that the jumble that is America is a blessing. JUDITH RICE Louisville...
...AMERICA THE LOVABLE...
...rights spirit of his father. "To me," he says, "this is a struggle of good and evil--between short-term greed and ignorance and a long-term vision of building communities that are dignified and enriching and that meet the obligations to future generations. There are two visions of America. One is that this is just a place where you make a pile for yourself and keep moving. And the other is that you put down roots and build communities that are examples to the rest of humanity...