Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fritz Hollings looks like he's sucking hard on a piece of sour candy. His opponent, Bob Inglis, is explaining to a group of seniors how the budget can be "technically balanced" without actually being balanced at all. Inglis, 39, a Republican Congressman, is measured, orderly and inoffensive, his hands cupped almost in prayer as he pads through the concept. Suddenly Hollings comes awake in a tumble of growls and bellows. "This is monkey talk," he says. The tax cuts the Republican promises will sap the Social Security trust fund. "They're raidin' the bloomin' fund," he blurts. Later Hollings...
...have spent a large budget for credibledefense," Chen warned. "The cream of their economywill be destroyed. That will push China back intothe 19th century while the rest of the world movesforward to the 21st...
...independent's platform is economics-based,stressing budget and tax restructuring...
...stark contrast to the weak performance of his opponent, Cellucci, who has been riding the coat-tails of his popular predecessor, William F. Weld '66, and the strength of the state economy. Cellucci has little to show for his more than a year in office. His much-publicized budget cuts this summer removed necessary funding from worker training and adult education programs while doing little to aid the Commonwealth's working families. Finally, Harshbarger and Cellucci differ markedly on the most important issue of this campaign: education. Cellucci has been inconsistent in his support of education reform, at one point...
...proposed budget savings, which add up to $24 billion, target a lot of sacred cows -- especially the social security benefits of civil servants -- and despite Cardoso's popular mandate for the plan, Congress is expected to kick up a considerable fuss. But Baumohl thinks that the international response will prove convincing. "We should start to see foreign investment returning to Brazil, and the IMF now has an obligation to put together the planned $30 billion bailout." Cardoso has written the recipe for Brazil's recovery. All he's got to do now is make sure the meal gets cooked...