Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked for the Census. Was that for money or to meet single moms...
...first technique the House leadership employed was to take perfectly predictable expenses, like planned defense appropriations and the 2000 Census, and call them "emergency" spending, which is outside the caps (but still must come from other revenues, like Social Security). With the second technique, known as "directed scorekeeping"--described by one Federal budget expert in private practice as "lying about the numbers"--they were able to get rid of over half of the remaining deficit...
...TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "The CBO numbers are only a projection - the Republicans can still keep their promise. But to do it they'll have to continue to perform these ridiculous contortions that Clinton and the Democrats will have a field day with." Such as budgeting the 2000 census - on the calendar since 1789 - as an "emergency." Such as that plan to create a phantom "13th month" to hide more spending-cap spillover. Such as messing with the $2,000 earned income tax credits that go to the working poor, or asking the states to hand back billions...
Demographics don't help. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single men outnumber single women in the Valley by almost 5,500. And even men who should have no problem attracting women--say, good-looking men worth millions of dollars--aren't dipping into the dating pool. Sabeer Bhatia, 31, the co-founder of Hotmail, made $200 million when he sold his company to Microsoft in 1998. Rather than retire, or even slow down, Bhatia founded another company, called Arzoo (a Hindi word for--what else?--passion). He has five cars, a penthouse apartment in San Francisco and a stream...
...EMERGENCY! Key supporter: HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT How it works: Call expenditures like the $4.5 billion allocated for the 2000 Census "emergencies," so they don't count under the 1997 spending caps. Small hitch: If the Census--held each decade for 210 years--is an emergency, what's Hurricane Floyd...