Word: certained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profit; he'd just hold on until some sensible politicians came along and lowered the rates.* Impose a tax on securities transactions, and you simply drive the securities business to London and Tokyo. Ultimately, you'd only enrich the British and Japanese. Raise corporate tax rates past a certain point (not to say anyone knows exactly where that point is), and what you gain in revenue now you'd lose later -- by draining from corporations the money they could spend to expand and grow, and by making America a less attractive place for anyone, Americans or foreigners, to invest...
...Carlton, a demeaning screening of potential scripts. In a cavernous baroque banquet room, ad-makers flipped through their storyboards to impress the new team. It was an amateurish tryout that produced more bitterness than ads. Among those produced was a semicoherent series ridiculing Bush's handlers. Although they are certain to form the core of Kennedy School seminars for the next four years, they baffled viewers. "His people weren't ready for the big time," said former Dukakis adman Ken Swope of the operation. "They weren't ready for hardball...
Even before the Democrats select a new party chairman to succeed Paul Kirk in January, Jackson is almost certain to stake his claim as the spiritual leader of the party and its presidential nominee in 1992. He comes out of this campaign with an army of loyalists in every key state, a fund-raising list containing nearly 200,000 names that is the envy of his rivals and a peripatetic speaking schedule that will keep him highly visible. But to solidify his position, Jackson is keenly aware that he must quickly move away from the polarizing postures of the past...
...prosecutor acting in the midst of such a dispute must exercise great caution -- first, to distinguish violations of law from policy disagreements which are the expected and natural by-product of separated powers, and to make certain that the laws are applied consistently with the scope of the president's substantial constitutional authority in the area of foreign affairs...
Reunions are not easy, particularly the first ones. You have to be a certain age to recognize that meeting someone again whom you once knew is a reunion. Suddenly it takes on a certain importance, encountering you as something significant, a means of orienting yourself. This was my first bout with nostalgia, meeting a friend from days gone...