Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real problems, though, come in figuring how to pay for this largess. To begin with, Dole is siding with supply-side economic theorists--whom he once derided--and their argument that tax cuts spur growth by giving consumers more money to spend and businessmen more to invest, thus creating additional tax revenues to help pay for the tax cuts. Dole is figuring that a quarter of the $551 billion in cuts can be recaptured this way. That's rather modest by the standards of earlier supply-siders, but still very iffy...
Perhaps late into the dank night, when the Smores have congealed to the consistency of government cheese and the sleeping bag begins to feel more like a moist Baggie, certain outdoorsmen begin to wish for the unspeakable: that the call of the wild would be answered by room service...
...Sure, if we got lucky, dug into the soil and came up with a little plant, we could detect that," says Norm Haynes, director of the Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But there's nothing we can send from Earth that can even begin to duplicate what the people who studied the Martian meteorite...
...Reform Party Convention, scheduled to begin this Sunday in Long Beach, California (one day before the Republican get-together down the freeway in San Diego), will not be so much a convocation as a coronation. It's likely to be as lively as an Electronic Data Systems sales conference. Forget the balloons and funny hats. Backers of Dick Lamm fear that even placards and signs might be banned. The party's national coordinator, Russell Verney, says the convention will play host to only about 1,500 valid Reform Party delegates and is not for hoopla but for decision making...
...that end, some half a dozen companies plan to begin selling a Net TV of one sort or another between the end of summer and the beginning of next year. Rick Doherty, a director of the Envisioneering Group, estimates that 1 million Net TV devices will be sold in the first year, and that a third of American homes will have...