Word: budgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once there, he gave the speech of his life, less for its text than its context. It was detailed, specific and easy to understand, uncharacteristically lean, a fatherly promise to take care of business. He offered something to everyone: a balanced budget for the bond markets, better child care for working parents, a higher minimum wage for the unions, due attention to global warming for the greens, a plan to save Social Security for the boomers, and a last, potent warning for Saddam Hussein...
...confusion stems partly from the independent-counsel law itself. Because it provides such wide-ranging powers, it can make even the most scrupulous prosecutor look at times like the Grand Inquisitor. The unlimited budget and open-ended time frame of an independent counsel give Starr's probe an ominous bulk even when it's idling in neutral, as it was during much of the year before the latest scandal exploded. "Any federal prosecutor has more resources than the target of his investigation, but other federal prosecutors must assign priorities among investigations," says Theodore Olson, a former assistant attorney general...
Kotlikoff said this pay-as-you go system must be reformed in order to avoid a budget crisis in the future...
Kotlikoff said that President Clinton's controversial statement that the budget surplus should go to Social Security is only a quick...
...University of Massachusetts system's tuition woes began in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the university had to increase its tuition prices due to state budget troubles...