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Bush's latest marketing technique has been to portray the cut as a necessary antidote to recession. Yet if we are on the brink of a recession, then the surplus estimates are incorrect, meaning that in a few years we may not have any money to spend on tax cuts. Additionally, gradually phasing in a long-term tax cut plan will not have any immediate effect on a recession--Bush's top economic advisor, Lawrence B. Lindsey, has written that tax cuts have too slow an effect to be useful in fighting recessions. Fighting a short-term recession is better...
...dictator have access to imported fruits and vegetables, medical care and other supplies. In essence, the only Iraqis who are not threatened by poverty are those who rely directly on Hussein for their subsistence. How can an opposition ever emerge if the only people not teetering on the brink of ruin are those who are most loyal to Hussein...
...been a grueling weekend, but there has been a lot of growth," said Harvard Coach Gordon Graham. "This has been a great experience for the players to really push themselves to the brink...
...exclusion from the selection process and should demand an explanation from Rudenstine. That a handshake at the first-years' President's Dance has been most students' sole interaction with Rudenstine is all the more reason for them to contact selection committee members now, when the committee is on the brink of choosing his successor. If that successor is similarly distant from undergraduate concerns, students will have been silent accomplices to the crime. There are four candidates left on the short list. There is still time for undergraduates to identify the candidate who best represents their interests and lobby...
...stage a coup against me?" she asked General Edgardo Espinosa of the Marines. Listening for a moment, she then assured her audience that a coup was "beyond the general's imagination." Needless to say, that display didn't exactly allay concerns that her government may be on the brink...