Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last six months, Harvard has been the outsider inside the Beltway...
...Life Inside the Beltway...
...after 15 years of failure to get the deficit under control, are these almost predictable reactions more reflexive than real? Do the Washington lobbyists and interest groups reflect popular sentiment, or just their own Beltway impulses? To see how a community confronts the prospect, two TIME correspondents spent a month examining the federal dependence of Fargo and its surrounding county, which reap $1.30 in benefits for every $1 in taxes the citizens send to Washington. While Fargo may lack the urban woes of larger cities, its federal take closely tracks the national average, and its share of spending closely matches...
...states. "The Federal Government has a stranglehold on the rural West," says Met Johnson, a G.O.P. state legislator in Utah and a co-founder of the coalition, "We are not the reactionary right wing. We know that we can manage these lands better than they can from inside the Beltway...
...billion,'' said the President plaintively. ``They ought to be able to do that.'' Clinton obviously didn't understand that the baseball strike is like Somalia: simple on the outside, a quagmire once you're in. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who enjoyed a cushy teaching gig before moving inside the Beltway, seems similarly at sea. ``I've never seen this degree of animosity,'' said Reich. ``I can't explain it.'' Well, listen, Mr. Secretary, we're not talking about some garden-variety dysfunctional family here. These are selfish, spoiled sorts--billionaire owners who treat their teams as toys and millionaire players...